Jim Parsons Quotes

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

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.

I've got so many weaknesses.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Everyone fears rejection.

One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me.

I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.

When I don't feel that I'm good enough, I put myself in a corner.

I'm a nervous sharer. I'm nervous to share things in their unfinished state just because, I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. You know what it could be, but you can't explain what it's going to be.

I suffer from imposter syndrome all the time. Even if I'm just at a party, I'm thinking people are going to find out that I'm really boring.

I get in my own way a lot. I feel a lot more confident than I... am.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

Yes, I was on the cover of 'Vogue,' but girls on the cover of 'Vogue' are the most scared of rejection. Models are the most insecure of them all. Actually, actors and actresses are, and then musicians, and then models!

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.