Quotes About Insecurity

When I was at University I had a sort of fear about going to the gym and that kind of blokeish environment, which was rooted in a feeling of total inadequacy, which is what fear is.

I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

I went through an awkward phase with my body and was often ragged for being too thin. I didn't understand then why people were being so unkind, but I used it to make myself mentally stronger.

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the true constant in our profession... and it must be celebrated.

I hate the unknown.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

We don't want women to really know men, because then they'll find out how much we need them.

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, 'I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.' And still I would question it. Did she mean it?

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

I gotta lose weight. I got stretch marks on my stomach and I never had a baby. So now when I take off my shirt in front of women, I tell them I was attacked by a mountain lion.

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.