Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.
John LennonA lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
Dalai LamaI was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.
Richard P. FeynmanI was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.
Dave GrohlActors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.
Clint EastwoodThe only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.
Bad BunnyWe’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.
The WeekndPeople wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.
Angelina JolieI used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.
Kanye WestWith all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.
BonoIf a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.
Marilyn MonroeI have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
George Bernard ShawOh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!
Angelina JolieNo man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry AdamsI live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.
Richard BransonTo this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.
Lady GagaWhen I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
Taylor SwiftI don’t really like being in the centre of attention.
Greta ThunbergI love playing ego and insecurity combined.
Jim CarreyLeaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
John C. MaxwellSometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.
Angelina JolieYou get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
Taylor SwiftI wouldn’t use the word ‚scared‘ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.
Anthony HopkinsMy friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.
Joel OsteenIf I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.
Taylor SwiftIronically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.
Brene BrownI had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.
Stephen KingI’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.
Kevin GatesI want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.
Joyce MeyerThe less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint EastwoodPessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.
James BaldwinI think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
Katharine HepburnWhat good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?
Marilyn MonroeIn my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘
Clint EastwoodChange is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
Joyce MeyerI think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.
Lady GagaWhen I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.
Alice MunroWe have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.
Joyce MeyerFolks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Harper LeeI used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.
Marilyn MonroeI am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.
Greta ThunbergSometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
Nelson MandelaOur doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William ShakespeareFirst you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott FitzgeraldVanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
Taylor SwiftI think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there’s so much pressure on you.
Vivienne WestwoodOne tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
George CarlinThough the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhen I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
Marilyn MonroeThere was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.
Marilyn MonroeIt’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.
Taylor SwiftI’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
Adam SandlerOften it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark TwainAbility hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Golda MeirI don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.
EminemSomething I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.
Angelina JolieThis is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
Madeleine AlbrightMe not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.
The WeekndAlthough I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.
George LucasI’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Marilyn Monroe