Quotes About Insecurity

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy.

I always felt like the only messaging I was hearing around faith was, you need to be perfect or you can leave.

If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

AOL Instant Messenger was a big thing back in the day, where girls would get on it and make fun of me. There was a certain girl, and she wanted to make me feel bad.

I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

I'm used to people commenting on my body, even women I have just met.

I felt like we used to hold ourselves in a box based on fear. Will the metal community accept us. Is this heavy enough? Is this not heavy enough?

Mexico cannot put up with this scenario of death and kidnapping.

Even if people say you look cool and you did well, it's extremely cringey to watch yourself rocking out. It's like listening to your own voice on an answering machine times a hundred, because you're hearing your voice through a microphone outside of a PA at a hundred decibels.

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

I am human and get insecure because I am a middle class man and I need to feed my family and acting is the only job I know.

Nothing could be as hard as middle school.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new kid, who was acting, so that didn't help much either. It was really tough.

'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of kids feel like they don't even have one good friend.

I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

I was bullied in elementary to middle school. It messed with my self esteem.

I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it.

Looking back, it amuses me that people imagined that I was a very brash, fearless, redheaded young revolutionary when I was in fact a very insecure, mousy-haired, middle-aged man with a deep fear of authority.

I never felt that AC Milan had full confidence in me.

I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.