Quotes About Insecurity

My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

I've always been quite insecure. I had followed Mum and Dad into TV and yet in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't for me.

I remember going round to my friends' houses and asking them to ask their mum and dad if I could stay for dinner because I wasn't going to get fed.

Mumbai is not safe anymore.

I was 19 when I made my Bollywood debut with 'Ekk Deewana Tha,' and all alone in Mumbai. I would be easily affected by all that was said or written about me.

I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.

I was like, 'I'm only going to do musical theater for the rest of my life. I'm never going to do TV.' And whenever I'd get auditions for TV, I'd be like, 'Okay, whatever. I've got a lisp, so they're not going to take me.' And then I started doing this, and I guess it was my sister that got me into the acting thing.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.

The fact that I'm not a good musician - I throw it around, tell people that - it doesn't matter that much. It only matters to me, because I idolized good musicians. I absolutely worshiped them.

Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing.

I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

Whenever you meet another woman, you immediately revert to you five-year-old self thinking, 'do you want to be my friend. Can I keep you?'

I know the feeling of confusion and betrayal. I know the feeling of fearing for my life.

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

People feel so much more comfortable bullying behind a screen than in person. It gives them a mystique and makes them say things that they would never be strong enough to say in person.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

It would be naive if I said that I don't fear failure.

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

Crawling around naked in front of a crew of people at the age of 53? Hello? That was scarier than anything.