David Sedaris Quotes

I lost my confidence.

I always felt like a fraud.

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

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

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.

Competitiveness only comes with insecurity.

I doubted myself for a long time.

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

I had this fear of rejection. I had this inner unworthiness.

What makes anyone think that I'm any good?

Everyone around me has more confidence in me than I do in myself.

For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.

I know what it is like to lose your confidence.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

I'm not, sexy, am I? God knows, I've tried

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

I don't always understand my worth.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.