Quotes About Insecurity

I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone's noticing me.

Gossip is the sound of jealously.

It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.

Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man.

When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy.

Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It's become my identity. If that's gone, where am I?

But sometimes, when she'd be all by herself, walking home late in the evening on a crowded street she'd be afraid of her own shadow following her...

Being in a male-dominated industry, you can feel like a little excluded. That was making me feel like maybe I'm not funny. I was really seriously considering, like, quitting standup.

I had a crisis of confidence and ran away from being a standup for a while.

I always imitated other people and thought, 'Well, maybe I'll do standup,' but I was too afraid for that.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.'

I was a weird-looking chubby, half-Asian kid who didn't have the pop star look.

No one knows what they're doing. I remember going into an interview with a big star and I was nervous. Then I realised they were more nervous. I realised I was the one with the power because I was the one asking the questions.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

When you're in this business, you're chasing false identities, chasing money and stardom, which is nothing you can hold onto.

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

Every woman has had the guy she's broken up with park across the street and stare at her door. Every guy has had someone call at two in the morning and hang up. Or you've been the person who has done those things.

I know you're supposed to love yourself, but I really hate the way I look. When I look in the mirror I'm so disgusted by the chocolate blancmange abomination staring back at me, I actually apologise to my wife for my physical appearance. I've got no backside, an overhanging belly and I'm so disproportionate.

I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

I hate going into a room with people in it and the feeling of them staring. I find every moment excruciating.