Quotes About Insecurity

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.

But sometimes that can make a girl so much more appealing. The beauty who doesn't know she's beautiful.

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.

You know your the best when people you don't know hate you.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

A low wage business is always insecure.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

There isn't a single business where anybody feels secure.

Modeling is a lonely business.

I think in show business, it's really kind of easy to perpetuate that feeling of, like, Oh, I don't measure up. Or always having to prove yourself.

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.