Quotes About Insecurity

I never had the chutzpah to just come to L.A. and make it. I didn't have that confidence. I'm always surprised when I get a job.

I'm not surprised that I tend to go for the dark side. I was a really scared kid, so I think I understand what scares people.

Every time I get a role, I'm surprised. It's like, 'Alright, when am I going to stop fooling them?'

It surprises me that criticism on social media is worst than ever... more and more people tend to seek perfection in others.

I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.

My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.

But here is the thing. When he gets on me, I suddenly feel I am fat. I feel am terrifically fat, so fat that Rudy is a tiny thing and hardly there at all.

Imagine a woman who could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one.

But this Hemingway stuff is what really has me down. A gag, I said. An old, old gag. Who is this Hemingway person at all? A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good. That must take a hell of a long time, the big man said.

It's so hard for women – even nice women – to realize that their bodies are not irresistible.

Men love their fears. That is why they hold on to them so tightly.

Pug nodded. 'What do you fear the most?' Nicholas thought a long moment. 'Of not being as good as I should be.' Pug said, 'Then you stand a chance, Nicholas.

Connor: [about Sidda and Connor's wedding] Vivi, it's taken years to nail down a date. She's always said, What's the rush, when things are so good? I don't know what the hell she's so afraid of - it's like she's always waiting for the bottom to drop out. Vivi: You know why she thinks that, don't ya, honey? Because it did. It always did.

thinking: I don't want my little girl to come out blind or gouged up. I'm not cheap, I'm scared. It's the story of my life: not stingy, just a goddamn coward.

There's nothing wrong with you, it's just fear.

My courage— my spirit: it's so much less than it was. I'm afraid to let you rely on me.

Öfke her zaman korkudur ve korku hep kaybetme korkusudur.

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Proving yourself is a dangerous trap.

Would gladly trade a limb to live my life free from fear!

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

Jealousy is always a mask for fear: fear that we aren't able to get what we want; frustration that somebody else seems to be getting what is rightfully ours even if we are too frightened to reach for it. At its root, jealousy is a stingy emotion.