Quotes About Insecurity

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

Personally, I've struggled with a lot of doubt in myself at times.

I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all the years when I was a child that I struggled with feeling lonely when I was scared to go to school and petrified of walking into the elementary school cafeteria because I was worried I wouldn't have anyone to sit with.

As a female and someone who's young, I'm still coming into my own, and I still have struggles. I know how I look; I know what my flaws are - I don't need anybody to tell me that.

I think everyone struggles to feel comfortable in their skin or has at one time or another.

I was one of six children raised by a single mom who cleaned houses, not always knowing if we would come home to an eviction notice on the front door or food on the table. So I also understand the struggles of paying the rent, finding affordable child care, and having enough in the bank to make it to the end of the week.

As an insecure adult in Houston, a writer struggling to make myself heard, I was nourished by those hours with the Houston Rockets in ways that I did not recognize.

Not all actresses know how to express their looks, I think. For me, it's an on-again, off-again thing. I'm still struggling.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

One of the biggest things I struggle with is people's opinions. As much as I would like to say that I don't care, I see those comments. And sometimes it affects you more than others, or may completely change your mood.

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

I've always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate attempt to impress the opposite sex lead to at best deep humiliation, I now feel extremely blessed that I wasn't.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are compared to her.