Quotes About Insecurity

When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day don't really know what chords I'm playing, I don't know the name of them.

I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.

I was one of the people that always got chosen last, and I think I bulked up my comedy bone to make up for my lack of friends.

I am always surprised to be chosen by a director for a role because I never understand why they like me.

I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.

When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.

I was a chubby kid.

I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.

I think you could say that, a lot of players are insecure and sometimes we have this shield around us that we don't want to accept that we have problems sometimes or we don't know how to do things because we're these superheroes.

I am not superhuman, and we all feel insecure at times.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.

A lot of stand-up comedians are actually very insecure, and they come on slightly battling the audience. They want to be the superior person in the room, sneering at the world. That can be very funny. But to me, what's more interesting is that the world is on my shoulders, and it's pushing me down.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.

Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met with a display of someone else's superior intelligence.

My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company.

I have a superiority complex I need to get rid of.

A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I'm not quite ready for that super part yet, and I'm afraid that by the time I am, I'm going to be too old anyway.

It would be an amazing superpower to be able to make every person you meet feel better about the thing that makes them insecure.

When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to hear what we've done.

I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.

I hate dinner parties, you know, can't stand them. Friends don't bother inviting me any more, because they know I won't come. I could never think of anything to say between courses - it's a confidence thing, I suppose.

I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?