Quotes About Insecurity

I wanted to look sexy and I felt like I was too skinny so I started working out with a trainer trying to build some muscle because I was like this skinny little scrawny girl.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

I'm always doubting my work, even when people are kind enough to say good things. I still have a hard time believing I've written some books, let alone that they've actually done pretty well.

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

I haven't got a green bone in my body. I have not got a jealous streak of any type at all.

It's very difficult for me to explain myself. I used to park blocks away from NBC when I went to work there so I wouldn't have to tell the gate-man who I was. He'd always repeat 'Who?' And I'd have to go through who I was again and where I was working. So I'd just park on the street and find a fence I could climb over.

I lived in fear that other engineers would stop me in the street and ask me a math question, and I wouldn't know the answer.

I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.

Home was never a safe place for me. I felt safer on the streets.

I lived in the streets for three years when I was a kid, and every day, I didn't know where my next meal would come from.

I was seven or eight and a kid who was easily picked on. Not bullied but other kids would've told me what to do in the streets. I was very shy. I used to put my head down.

I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.

I do not speak at panels, because I'm a real shy actress. And to put me in that position, I'm going to fail you because that's not where my strengths lie.

It really stresses me out to think about what other people think about me.

Sometimes stepping out with short hair can feel like leaving home without your phone. You feel stressed and naked. There is, quite literally, nothing to hide behind.

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'

I am very shy. It's the most stressful thing to be in the public eye.

They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.

I have a bony face - I feel like my skin's been stretched over my skull.