Quotes About Insecurity

I put up a front to make people think I had all of this confidence in myself, which I didn't.

I'd always been quite anxious and never felt very confident so I've always over-compensated.

I don't feel body confident at all! Anything but, actually.

I am not the world's most confident person.

I'm really not that confident!

I don't think I can be a bright and fresh-looking actress. I am not really confident in that kind of character.

Because my career has gone so fast, I haven't been able to become confident.

If I was confronted with some 20-year-old American hotshot, I'd hate him.

I was too shy to be confronted by any kind of audience.

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

Seeing my mother struggle with her weight confused me: I looked at her and thought she was beautiful, she was my mom. And this woman, who I looked up to everyday, couldn't see her own beauty?

School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.

Funnily enough, I never thought of myself as being short. Being an actor has made me much more conscious of it than I would have been otherwise.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.

I'm surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!

I'm always surrounded by good-looking guys, like Zac Efron, so I have to be with someone who's not going to get jealous about any of that, or when I'm kissing somebody in a scene.

When I was younger - up until I was 19 years old and in college - I was surrounded with people in high school who felt like they knew what they wanted to do with their lives, and that was intimidating to me because I didn't.

Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.

Sometimes, when I'm surrounded by a lot of people, I shake, I'm so nervous.

I feel anxious for my children because tomorrow, if a mob surrounds them and asks, 'Are you a Hindu or a Muslim?' they will have no answer.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

If you look at the American Household Survey, the last time we did that in 2013, renters in over 2.8 million homes thought they would be evicted soon.

It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.