Claire Denis Quotes

Everything looks cute when it's small.

I am small. I was always small. But only physically.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

I'm a small shifty kind of guy.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

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.

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.

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

I have such a little face.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

Sometimes I may come off like I know what I'm doing or I'm confident, but I'm not always.

When I got to Alabama, I was really small.

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

Do you feel insecure because you keep getting the nagging feeling that you're not that smart? Well, I've got good news for you, my friend. You have no need to be insecure. That nagging feeling is absolutely right on target. You are not that smart. But I have more good news for you. You are also not alone.

What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter

I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.