Before ‘Insecure,’ I was a wedding emcee – a host for weddings. That’s a world that a lot of people are not familiar with.
We’re so insecure, comedians. ‘Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?’
Actors are dumb when they get insecure of their co-stars. A lot of actors do. When there is a good actor, they’re like, ‘Oh, he’s eating up the part.’ That’s stupid.
I have the show because I’m insecure. It’s my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
As an insecure adult in Houston, a writer struggling to make myself heard, I was nourished by those hours with the Houston Rockets in ways that I did not recognize.
There’s an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don’t know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.
I’m not as hard on myself anymore. I’m comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I’m really insecure about, but I’ve changed by loving me – C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.
I behave differently in different situations, and I’m slightly unstable and insecure, which I think are natural conditions of what I do. And I have a weird ear. Whatever I hear, I emulate. When I was a kid I did impressions: Forrest Gump, Rain Man, really big caricatures.
A lot of women will tell you, especially if they’re ambitious, driven, successful, that it is hard to find men who are secure. There’s a lot of insecure dudes out here.
I wasn’t your normal plus-size girl who would dress in all black and hide in the shadows. I was very out there. But I was very shy and insecure about certain things.
You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I’d end up feeling totally insecure about myself.
Ever since I was 16, I’ve had this lower register, what I thought was a very manly voice, and I was insecure about that. But once I started acting more, I realized it was an asset, and I didn’t want to force myself to aim for the highest note possible.
You’ll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
Insecure people don’t stage comebacks, since they don’t leave the scene.
I think becoming an actor because it’s a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it’s plain sailing for hereon in, then you’re kidding yourself.
I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent’s door. I couldn’t even do it. I’m way too insecure and too proud.
I think I’m insecure about what every girl is insecure about, looks and stuff like that, but it’s not a big deal.
I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.
I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.
People look at me and go, ‘You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.’ It’s not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I’m just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.
Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.
I’m so loud, as if I know what I’m on about, but deep inside, I’m so insecure. Just a little girl.
Andy was an offbeat personality, shy and insecure. The whole reason for taking a camera with him wherever he went was because he was so shy. He’d break the ice by taking pictures.
It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.
I’ve always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.
I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.
I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than I really was. It really reflected how I felt about myself. I spent most of my youth in school feeling really insecure about the way I looked because I was different.
When I told my father that I wanted to join the film industry, he asked me if I was sure about it, as acting is a very insecure profession. He also asked me if my reason to join the same profession like him was to have an easy road. I said no.
Kids will often see something different and feel insecure about it because they don’t understand it.
Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep – that’s when I get to spin. But you’re not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can’t enter the room when you’re auditioning – unless it’s part of the character.
I love Issa Rae from ‘Insecure.’
I’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.
I don’t consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
I was very insecure growing up, and even though I’m not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.
I’m usually pretty insecure.
I would see these people calling me ‘fat’ and calling me horrible names. And this one page called me ‘Miss Piggy,’ and they only referred to me as ‘Miss Piggy.’ I was a 16-year-old girl. I did not know how to deal with that, and I was already insecure about my weight.
Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn’t think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, ‘Garry Shandling.’ His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter’s scar.
If you have to mask the things you’re insecure about, go ahead. Wear four pairs of pantyhose, pad your hips, boost your boobs – whatever it takes to walk out of the house feeling like you own the world. Because there’s no reason to waste your life hating something you can change.
I am insecure. Everyone’s insecure.
I feel like when the people in ‘Insecure’ are honest, the characters learn the most. This show has grown my cynicism a little a bit about relationships just because the way men and women responded to the fact that Issa was cheating on her boyfriend.
I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don’t know any other way.
I didn’t struggle initially. But after my hit Aashiqui, I didn’t get any film offers for 8 months. That made me insecure.
In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.
I’d be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their country and team.
I can still feel unsure in myself, and l’m still insecure about certain things, but my desire to be happy and my desire to be free is very strong.
I’m more insecure than I ever let anyone know; sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.
You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think ‘Like ‘Em All’ was just a perfect song for all the girls, and I think that’s why it blew up like it did.
Writing is one thing, but I’m way more insecure and neurotic when it comes to acting.
I was super insecure in middle school; I didn’t tell anyone I swam because it wasn’t the cool sport to be doing.
What I enjoy the most about ‘Insecure’ is it holds up a mirror to real life. If you’re paying attention and you’re watching consciously, you are able to make better decisions about who you are, the people that are around you.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.
I’ve always been insecure about dancing. I was when I was in high school.
The men couldn’t understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time – because it doesn’t really exist in the same way in the male psyche.
I think we’re all insecure about something, but there’s a way to deal with those emotions healthily by seeking professional help earlier on.
I don’t like downtime, and I just am too insecure that I’ll not work again if I don’t start the ball rolling on the next round of things. Everything takes so long to make and come to fruition.
