Insecure Quotes

Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare.

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

Despite what I do for a living, I am very insecure about my body.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.

I am insecure. Everyone's insecure.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

I am not insecure about being a journalist.

The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor.

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

The funny thing is, I look at these magazines that make me so insecure and neurotic, but I'm in them!

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

Americans are always a little bit insecure.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

Actors are such an insecure breed.

I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That's why they go into acting!

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

I take care of myself so I don't feel insecure about my body.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can't help but feel insecure.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

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

I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

I'm very insecure.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

I want everybody to succeed. It's just part of who I am. I probably do that with my kids tenfold. I'm as insecure as the next person, but it doesn't ever take me over.

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess. I feel a different kind of conviction about my choices. I feel much more insecure and awkward in the world, somehow, than I do when I'm writing.

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.