Quotes About Authenticity

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.

I'm trying to tell men, 'Really show yourself. Do not be macho, because the biggest turnoff for a woman is a macho guy because women, they're very sensitive. They know you're macho because you're insecure.'

I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know; sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.

I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses.

I don't get insecure and rush to sign movies just to be in the public view and news. That is not the way I am.

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

The more successful I become, the more I want to remain like me, with my defects and insecurities.

When I think of myself, I don't think I'm one of the 'hottest chicks in the world.' I have all kinds of insecurities.

Ananya is a very happy soul, who won't get bogged down by insecurities. I have told her to not imitate anyone.

People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and that's an insecurity of mine.

I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.

Everyone has a freak flag inside them. Whether they're brave enough to show it is another matter.

I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

I don't try and copy anyone in T20 cricket. My cricketing shots are inside out, behind the bowler, and other shots I have developed.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.