Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a façade.

A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.

Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends from university have said, 'I quite fancied you, but I wouldn't have dared...' and I was like, 'Oh really?' I was completely amazed that anyone had ever fancied me, and also that I'd obviously given an impression of 'Don't touch me.'

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

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

A lot of people think I'm naturally confident. I am not naturally confident!

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth.

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

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.

Men trust a great man because they do not trust themselves. And hence the worship of great men always appears in times of weakness and cowardice; we never hear of great men until the time when all other men are small.

That's something I've struggled with my entire life - people underestimating me.

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

I don't think I'm leading lady material, and I was always the wrong shape. I was never tall enough. But it was more lack of confidence. I shunned doing straight parts. I didn't think I was a good enough actress, so I thought I might as well do something they were supposed to laugh at.