Quotes About Insecurity

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.

I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'

At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production: 'Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.'

If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.

My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'

I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside.

I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.

I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.

I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way - that, on some subconscious level, they're responsible.

I hate being the subject of photographs.

For so many years, I was trying to beat my hair into submission, trying to get it to look like someone else's hair, and I didn't know how. I remember going through a phase where I even put beer in my hair, because I was told that would make it smooth and curly.

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.

Pretentiousness was probably my substitute for actual confidence.