Quotes About Insecurity

I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous.

As a woman getting older people start to feel insecure about the way they look.

When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it.

It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.

Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't.

When kids tried to pick on me, I always had one line to shoot them down with: 'I make more money in a week than you'll make in your entire life.' Which probably wasn't true, but they thought it was.

Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're down; one minute you're in favour and the next you're forgotten. You go away and you come back again.

One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general.

I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen.

I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.

When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.

I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar school, and even high school, I just didn't feel like I fit in.

The only time I get afraid is when I am at the ocean. I get a little nervous when I'm in the water because I always feel like something is going to bite or snatch me.

Although jealousy is a strong word, who would like to see the person they love romance someone else, even onscreen?

I'm very self conscious in a bikini, and I would never get my tummy out onstage.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.