Quotes About Insecurity

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

You don't mess with Oprah. She has enough money in her left pocket to have me killed.

Why is the feeling of insecurity so prevalent in this field? Because the actor is such a dependent person on other people. If I am a painter, poet, composer, I am not really dependent on others.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

I was paralyzed for so long by people's opinions. I would be devastated to the point where I didn't know if I could make it through the day.

I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

I think, even before social media, it was really hard to not look at other classmates and say, 'Well I wish I looked like her.' Or even to look at celebrities and wish that 'I looked like them.'

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

I'm really bad at doing my hair, so the front always looks a little bit off. I think that the front is the most important in terms of the whole look. So, because the front layers just get awkward sometimes, I feel like I have to clip them back.

In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

I was a closet stutterer.

I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

I was a very clumsy Jewish kid.

Am I going to be good enough, because I don't have head-coaching experience outside of high school football? I've been around a lot of great head coaches in my career, but you begin to doubt. And, for me, it was the doubt of, 'Are the players going to believe me?'

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.