Quotes About Insecurity

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

Insecurity is such a waste of time.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don't watch - I don't watch myself.' I don't look at it. I don't.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

The problem is I don't have respect for the films I make after I've made them. I detach myself and get embarrassed when I watch them later.

I don't think any actor really thinks they're good. I watch my own work and I'm like, Oh God, this is terrible, that's terrible.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

Of course, like any woman, I look in the mirror and think, 'Oh, wouldn't I look better with a bit of Botox?' But you've got to find comfort in your own skin. I've watched women stretch themselves year after year until their faces are no longer recognisable.

I hate watching myself on screen. I can't stand it.

I do feel that over the years from watching programmes that tell people 'you're not good enough,' I just don't like it.

Going to a theatre and watching yourself on the big screen is a nightmare.

'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

I like watching different kind of shows, but I hate watching myself on TV. I feel I am a terrible actor.

There's nothing like a man watching a roomful of guys look his woman up and down to make him desire what he already has (and vice versa).

In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you.

I'm not a very good swimmer, and every time I'm in the water, I'm constantly reminded of that because I feel like I'm going to drown!

I have never bought a swim suit because of my fear for water.

I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.

I was a very shy kid and both my best friend and my sister went to Waterloo, and I just thought no I can't, I can't go there because I'll just hang on to them and no one will even know who the heck I am and that's no way to go through life.

On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.

If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.

You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.