Quotes About Insecurity

True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.

It's a frightening world to be alone in.

It made him shy, they way he felt the first time they stood together in a mirror.

She believed that he would be incapable of hurting her as Graham had.

but these talents could not make up for the fact that she did not possess a fair complexion, and so a string of men had rejected her to her face.

I've always felt in someone's shadow, even though I don't have to compare myself to brothers who are smarter, or to sisters who are prettier. There's no escape from the shadows that mount, inexorably, in this darkening season. Nor can we escape the shadows our families cast. That said, there are times I miss the pleasant shade a companion might provide.

She'd convinced herself that Subhash was her rival, and that she was in competition for him for Bela, a competition that felt insulting, unjust. But of course it had not been a competition, it had been her own squandering. Her own withdrawal, covert, ineluctable. With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether

Always at the end of a queue, in the shadow of others, she believed she was not significant enough to cast a shadow of her own.

After I look at her I look at myself in the mirror, and yet again I resign myself to the fact that my face has always disappointed me. Every look in the mirror dismays me, that's the reason I tend to avoid them.

Subhash was angry with himself for going along with it. For still needing to prove he could. He was sick of the fear that always rose up in him: that he would cease to exist, and that he and Udayan would cease to be brothers, were Subhash to resist him.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird.

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

My wife gets so jealous. She came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.