I’m one of the most insecure people in the world, always have been, and when you’re a fat kid, you try to make the fat jokes before other people make them.
I love ‘Insecure.’ I want to play Issa Rae’s sister. I do know Issa Rae, but we ain’t besties or nothing.
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.
I’ve just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used to just hide, and now I just accept that I’m an imperfect human.
I was never insecure. A lot of people ask me that – especially, did you feel pressure being Pau’s brother? No, because I saw success through him. And I felt it. Because we’re so close of a family, when he got recognition, I felt happy for him. I felt genuinely happy for him.
I think for women, especially women of colour, hair has so much to do with our identity and our confidence levels. I’ve made a conscious choice after growing up and feeling insecure and trying to achieve this look that actually wasn’t me, where I’ve finally stopped relaxing my hair and went back to my natural texture.
I am too insecure to crash early. I feel life will pass me by while I’m sleeping.
Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it’s necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
I remember after the second episode of ‘Saturday Night Takeaway’ aired, there were thousands of comments about how bad my teeth were. That got to me most because I was so insecure about my teeth as a child.
The funny thing is I’m actually really insecure. I have a lot of girl issues – ‘I’m not pretty enough,’ ‘I’m not skinny enough’ – but there is a confidence I have in what I can do. I did tend to overcompensate to cover up other insecurities that I have.
My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it’s a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
I don’t know how any film can bother you. It doesn’t have to do with multi-starrer films. If you are insecure, you can feel insecure being the only girl also.
I don’t have to do films to pay my bills, nor am I insecure to think that out of sight is out of mind.
I’m too insecure to have people hate me.
Europeans have long had a complicated and somewhat insecure relationship with the US, part admiration, part jealousy, part irritation.
I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people’s attention, so outside validation becomes too important.
I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.
I am insecure… because I have to think about what I look like every day.
When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
Braggarts are insecure and need attention, and bragging often has the opposite effect on most people when you’re trying to gain their respect and increase your influence.
There’s a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.
Actors, by nature, are insecure. I don’t see that as necessarily a bad thing. It is good to question yourself, be self-analytical. You get a better performance if you challenge yourself. If you go around thinking you’re great, you’re never going to challenge or scare yourself.
Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.
I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother’s dress.
I’m very insecure. I’m human, just like anybody else.
When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
It’s so easy to be insecure about your looks or if you’re wearing the right clothes, or your hair and makeup. And I think it’s just so important to stay true to who you are.
I always thought the name of my first book would be ‘The Insecure Chef,’ because when I started cooking, I was so nervous.
The worst thing to do when I’m feeling insecure or a bit vulnerable is to scroll through Instagram. You only show when life is good on social media. Everyone looks happy all the time.
I thought psychologists were people who rob, figuratively of course, money from the insecure. But they are not. They are people who are there to help you, and if you find a good psychologist, they will allow you to talk about everything and open up, without the slightest of fears, and that is no easy thing.
Issa Rae is a hero of mine, and I’m going to try not to completely creep her out. I love ‘Insecure.’
I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn’t even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.
I don’t make demands. I don’t tell you how it should be. I’ll give you options, and it’s up to you to select or throw ’em away. That should be the headline: If you’re insecure, don’t call.
I feel uncomfortable because I’m insecure about who I am.
All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I’m deeply insecure – but I’m good at hiding it.
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it’s true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.
At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this ‘out of the dark’ story, like, ‘I used to be insecure, but now here I am.’ But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn’t their reality, either.
I’m insecure about things. I’m not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, ‘Go on the red carpet,’ I don’t wanna go.
I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this pilot for ‘Insecure.’ I never saw myself as a comedy director, but when I read those pages, I said, ‘Wow – this is my life on the page.’
Those who feel a little insecure about our border have some reason to feel that way.
I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I’m terribly insecure. I’m plagued with insecurities 24/7.
I’m kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.
I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.
I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.
I personally have always hated dating. I was never vulnerable or insecure in any part of my life, but I would become that way with a guy because they have control, according to society, when it comes to dating.
As a teenage girl myself, I’ve gone through times in my life where I’ve felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.
We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.
When you’re a kid you’re already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don’t think you have a right to share that.
Being in an acting class, you always feel like, you know, you’re insecure, a lot of ways, when the teacher is commenting on your performance.
I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that’s surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.
I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can’t help but feel insecure.
I went from being able to walk down the street and be ignored to having men whistle at me. I was an insecure young girl, and it felt good to have attention, even though it was inappropriate.
Craig T. Nelson, who played my grandfather on ‘Parenthood,’ gave me a lot of advice at the end of the show. I’m really insecure, and I get uncomfortable with things, and he gave me a lot of advice about that.
One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don’t say ‘insecure’ in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: ‘Are they good enough?’ ‘Is this the right thing to do?’ I really beat myself up over that.
I’m not insecure about my body weight, or my money. I can take care of it. But I can’t imagine or think losing my mother. I can’t get her back. I would want to go before her.
I want to have new challenges and write new crazy books because I think it makes me a better writer to be insecure and try new things.
Whatever I post on social media, trolls will always have something to say. If I don’t get trolled, I feel I have not done something right and feel insecure.
I was bullied in high school, and it’s interesting coming from the other side of the camera lens, finding out that all of these people that I thought were my antagonists in my life were probably just as insecure as I was at that age.
