Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Stiller

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

Ari Graynor

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.

Demi Lovato

We're all human so of course there are days when I'm feeling insecure. When that happens, I take time to reflect on how far I've come and how far I will continue to go - it helps me feel empowered and self-assured.

Claire Forlani

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

Jane Green

I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them." ...Lucy

Jane Jacobs

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

Deb Caletti

A new person in your life gives the rest of you a chance to be new, too. Your life can be whatever you want it to, from there on out. I leaned in and kissed and that is who I was to him, not shy, but bold. Not inhibited, but brave. I was that to him and so I kept being that. It was what I thought he wanted and what he was attracted to, and yet it was this, this exact thing I wasn't even really, that made him the most insecure.

Edward Snowden

There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.

Alan Ladd

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

Charles de Lint

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

Bob Saget

My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.

Beth Moore

Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

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.

Greg Gutfeld

When you get famous and rich when you're young, what happens is you start feeling insecure.

Harry Browne

For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.

Neil Diamond

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

John Stamos

I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.

Mark Steyn

Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

Nick Jonas

I've always been a bit insecure about my smile, but its days like these where all I wanna do is smile.

Namie Amuro

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

Seth MacFarlane

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.

Michael Kors

Americans are always a little bit insecure.

Ralph Nader

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Henry Rollins

Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand.

Helen Gurley Brown

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

Henry Ford

A low wage business is always insecure.

Patricia Cornwell

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

Lisa Ling

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure

John Shelby Spong

A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of its defining prejudices. It thereby provides an appropriate and legitimate outlet for one's anger. The authority of an inerrant Bible that can be readily quoted to buttress this point of view becomes an essential ingredient to such a life. When that Bible is challenged, or relativized, the resulting anger proves the point categorically.

John Ralston Saul

World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

Sherry Turkle

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

Terence Stamp

All actors are incredibly insecure.

Miranda Kerr

Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.