personal insecurity Quotes

I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It's glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

I am very shy with people I don't know.

All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.

I think I have a deep-seated fear of being misunderstood. Or being misjudged.

Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

I worry I look posh and fat. I can't do anything about posh - I'm accentless - but I've spent 20 years battling my weight.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.

When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

Losing my teeth didn't impede my acting, but it was a constant worry and meant I was never completely relaxed.

My curls were my worst nightmare growing up.

When somebody says something bad about you, they feel bad about themselves in some way.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and that's an insecurity of mine.

If people weren't watching, I'd be so much more eccentric. I know it makes me sound weak, but rather than make myself happy and wear the silly hat and say, 'Oh, I don't care,' I actually really don't feel like getting made fun of. So I put on something boring and navy and go out and try to disappear.

I don't watch anything I'm in. Not even on set. I won't go over to the monitor to watch what we've just shot. It's too terrible. I think I'm just very self-conscious.