Insecurity Issues Quotes

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.

When I was a child, I was very shy and insecure. My mother was very over protective of me. I was a dreamer.

I think that for me, personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.

Nobody sets out to be evil. They're insecure, and they make bad decisions.

Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.

What' s the matter with me? Why can't I be cool?

I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.

If you are insecure, then you can't be friends with anyone.

I have felt so insecure about my body at times. I've been on every end of the spectrum. I felt like I was too skinny and wished I could be muscular. I've felt like I was chubby and wanted to be skinny. I think everybody suffers from body image issues. I might exude confidence sometimes, but I'm pretty insecure.

Everyone is insecure, especially in high school.

The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Eleanor Roosevelt was painfully shy, painfully shy. So she overcompensated. In the same way that Nancy Reagan felt unattractive and unlovable and so everything had to be - hair had to be perfect, and the makeup and the clothes. Because she thought, "They don't think I'm pretty."

I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.

When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

I was always worried about what others were thinking about me or how I was being perceived.

I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her someplace where she thinks that's the only thing that could cause insecurity.

Housing insecurity isn't just an abstract point of policy for me. I've lived it.

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We're not a pushover.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

Americans are always a little bit insecure.