Insecurity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.
-- Abraham Maslow -
People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
-- Aimee Mullins -
You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
-- Al Pacino -
Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
-- Albert Brooks -
When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.
-- Albert Brooks -
Anybody who is in #‎ freelance work, especially #‎ artistically , knows that it comes with all the #‎ insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening #‎ life .
-- Alessandro Nivola -
Im a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.
-- Alexandra Daddario -
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?
-- Amy Chua -
Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.
-- Amy Dickinson -
I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.
-- Amy Smart -
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
-- Anais Nin -
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
-- Andrew Cohen -
My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger,
-- Angie Harmon -
I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.
-- Ann Brashares -
Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do.
-- Ariel Winter -
The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild -
You never know, when you're going in to work with people if they're gonna be friendly or judgmental, or what have you. There's a ton of insecurities that go into my head, before I start working with someone.
-- Ashley Greene -
I obviously bring all of my insecurities along with me to any role that I tackle.
-- Aubrey Plaza -
You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly ... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
-- Barry Gibb -
I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
-- Ben Affleck -
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
-- Ben Whishaw -
Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.
-- Beth Gibbons -
Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?
-- Beth Moore -
Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.
-- Beth Moore -
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
-- Billy Connolly -
The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.
-- Billy Gardell -
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
-- Billy Joel -
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
-- Bobby Darin -
She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
-- Boy George -
Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
-- Brandon Boyd -
I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.
-- Brian Molko -
The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.
-- Bruce Jenner -
By the time you’ve had a relationship with a horse for a while, there are characteristics in the way the horse behaves with you and around you and responds to you that are directly (related) to some of your traits as a human being…whether it’s insecurity or aggression or fear or hate.
-- Buck Brannaman -
I keep forgetting to put focus on my to-do list. I keep forgetting to wander and have fun. I know I'm transparent but my insecurities are in all the right places, so go ahead, have a look.
-- Buddy Wakefield -
When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.
-- Carmen Electra -
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.
-- Cary Grant -
Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.
-- Catherine Keener -
I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.
-- Celia Imrie -
I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
-- Charles Handy -
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.
-- Cherie Lunghi -
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
-- Chester Bowles -
Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner insecurity and immaturity continually demand the demarcation of limits and postures of intimidation.
-- Christa Wolf -
I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.
-- Christopher Atkins -
Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.
-- Christopher Eccleston -
How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?
-- Christopher Fry -
I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.
-- Chuck Lorre -
Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.
-- Criss Jami -
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
According to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being. Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever obstacles we face.
-- Dalai Lama -
When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity.
-- Dalai Lama -
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
-- Dalai Lama -
I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
-- Damien Rice -
No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.
-- Dan Savage -
Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.
-- David -
When I work on something I'm not excited about or not as proud of it as I'd like to be, then I try to work even harder to make the next one and address those insecurities, I tackle insecurities rather than run from them.
-- David Gordon Green -
I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.
-- David Oyelowo -
I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.
-- David Thewlis -
Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.
-- David Whyte -
Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.
-- Deb Caletti -
Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.
-- Delta Goodrem -
I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.
-- Demi Lovato -
I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
-- Dick Van Dyke -
The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
-- Don Rickles -
Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know.
-- Drake -
There’s a special place in hell for men who convince women their intuition is insecurity to protect their duplicity.
-- dream hampton -
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
-- Edward Bond -
For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork
-- Elaine Stritch -
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.
-- Elle Macpherson -
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-- Emily Dickinson -
I think people in general think more about their insecurities.
-- Emily VanCamp -
Inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.
-- Eminem -
I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.
-- Emma Watson -
Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.
-- Emmanuel Jal -
Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.
-- Emmanuelle Chriqui -
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
-- Erich Fromm -
At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily rebuilt.
-- F. L. Lucas -
Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
-- Frank Gehry -
I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
-- Gail Porter -
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
-- Garry Trudeau -
I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
-- Gary Larson -
That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.
-- Gloria Gaynor -
It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity.
-- Graham Coxon -
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
-- Gustav Heinemann -
Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.
-- Haim Ginott -
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
-- Harlan Coben -
Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
-- Harold W. Dodds -
Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.
-- Harriet Lerner -
The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.
-- Helene Deutsch
