Quotes About Insecurity

I'm mortified when I see 20-year-old girls changing the shapes of their faces or plumping their lips out or their cheeks.

The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

When I was 12, I used to be the best friend of the most beautiful girls, but just the best friend. They would always come to me to cry about a guy who broke their heart, and I would just be sitting there thinking, 'I wish I was the guy and not the best friend.'

Everyone has something about themselves they hate. I once worked with one of the most beautiful women in the world and she absolutely hated her feet.

Fear, to me, is the most powerful feeling there is - fear.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

I was not a happy or popular or happy-with-myself kid, and I wasn't an especially motivated student, either.

People motivated by fear do not act well.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.

never planting their land (for they could not tell when an invader might not come and take it all away

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one...

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

I hope so. Except I'm afraid to look at myself. Literally. I can't even look at my own eyes in the mirror, not for long. I'm afraid I won't be there.

I feared ridicule and censure.

It's a dangerous feeling getting noticed, being wanted. Getting seen deep and proper, it's shit hot but terrible too. It's like being took over. And your whole skin hurts like you suddenly grew two sizes in a minute.

He'd worn himself ragged with second-guessing until his head felt like a tinful of bees.

It was not the thought of seeing God that upset her. It was the thought of being seen.