Quotes About Insecurity

I'm a neurotic attention-seeker.

In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.

I get really nervous when I'm performing or meeting new people.

Not everyone is going to love you. Not everyone is going to like what you do, and you see a lot of people don't want to let go of the bands that they love. They don't want to move forward. They don't want to let new things come in; they're scared of change. They're scared of new bands taking over their genre. They're just scared of change.

It is never easy to face the camera, especially for the newcomers.

If who you were was entirely based upon the position you were in or the headlines you got in the newspaper, or you had essentially subcontracted out your self-worth to the judgments of others, then you're going to be like tumbleweed. You're going to be blown.

I want to just be able to act and be like the girl next door or the cute babysitter or the busy mom who's fun or who knows, maybe something super dramatic, somebody who's really insecure and angry.

That's kind of always been that thing in the back of mind if I'm good enough to do certain things or take that next step in my career.

I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

Good players go into a season without a contract for the next year.

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

Bullies now aren't just jocks. They're rich kids in the nice cars with the fancy clothes.

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

When you're very famous, very young, there's that little thing of, 'Are they being nice to me because they think I'm a nice person? Or is it because they want to tell their friends 'Guess who I was with last night?'

School was kind of rough for me. People weren't always the nicest with what I was doing.

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

Insecurity is very common among actors. When I started giving interviews and talking to people that I didn't know, it was a nightmare. I've learned how to deal with interviews and insecurity; I've gotten used to it.

Whenever I go back to London, I have this horrible feeling that something bad will happen, and I won't be able to get back to America. It's a nightmare feeling.

It is a nightmare for me to watch myself on screen.

The nightmare? The nightmare was myself. I was my own nightmare.

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.

Any situation where I feel like people are looking at me and I've got to speak is the kind of thing I have nightmares about.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

I will be honest, I've had a couple of restless nights thinking, I cannot go and look stupid!'