Insecure Quotes - Page 13

• 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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Thinking, Wish, Matter

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• A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Insecurity

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• I 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 Hopkins

  Personality, Giants, Roles

  "Anthony Hopkins Discusses the Insecurities He Felt Playing ‘Hitchcock’ and How Darren Aronofsky Fared On the Set of ‘Noah’" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2012.

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• I’m a better person in a relationship, and I’m a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Motivation, Character, Home

  "Not So Goodwin". Interview with Danielle Stein, www.wmagazine.com. June 1, 2009.

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• A lot of overdubs from the last couple of records had to do with me being insecure about the way my voice sounds or the way I play guitar. I would want to mask it with extra things, or keep every moment super exciting. With the newest record, I tried my best to back off, and if something wasn't interesting at every moment, or if my voice didn't sound that good, just let it go and accept it.

  Doug Martsch

  Couple, Interesting, Let It Go

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• When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Feelings, Advantage, Manipulate

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.182, North Atlantic Books

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• Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you? When no one is looking, I check to see if anyone seems as scared as me, or lonely, or shy, or insecure. Is it just me? I'm not so sure. Is your heart an onion too? Show me yours, I'll show you mine we used to say. Your turn. Peel away.

  Nikki Grimes

  Lonely, Wall, Heart

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• To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, People

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• Models are the most physically insecure women on the planet.

  Cameron Russell

  Planets, Models

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• I get insecure about a lot of things. In my line of work, unfortunately, your appearance is important, and I'm always like, "Am I going to the gym enough this month? Have I been taking care of myself?" I get insecure about things from time to time.

  Jesse McCartney

  Important, Care, Lines

  "Jesse McCartney Talks Confidence, Future Plans, and Beware The Gonzo!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

  Auberon Waugh

  Mad, Political, England

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• At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.

  M. John Harrison

  Girl, Heart, Cities

  M. John Harrison (2007). “Viriconium”, p.34, Spectra

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• I remember working on a show, and feeling so insecure about whether I looked attractive enough to do a love scene. It was weird because I couldn't understand why I wasn't feeling beautiful, even though I knew I was.

  Tasha Smith

  Beautiful, Feelings, Remember

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people everywhere feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?

  Tyra Banks

  Hate, Talking, People

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• I examine it [pain] every which way. Why do I really feel this way? What's going on here? I have to really explore it all the way out, drill it down to its lowest common denominator and go, Oh! That's what that is. I'm feeling insecure. Or, Oh! God has something better for me.

  Kim Coles

  Pain, Feelings, Way

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• Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure. Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That's how they avoid feeling insecure.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Moving, Goal

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• An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

  Mark Van Doren

  Errors, Ideas, Society

  Mark Van Doren (1954*). “Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof”

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• All the studios are owned by multinational corporations, which are not usually bastions of the left. So all the actors, writers, and directors - or at least a great majority of them - live in fear because we're all insecure, we all want that next job, we all want to be loved, and we don't want to piss off some studio chief who won't hire us for the next movie.

  Paul Haggis

  Jobs, Majority, Directors

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• In my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create. It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage.

  Sarah Gadon

  Space, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never believed in going to America with my show-reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm too insecure, and too proud. It's a strange combination.

  Carice van Houten

  America, Doors, Agents

  "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.

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• When you are insecure, it turns people off. To spend money, people have to give away a part of their security. When they make the transfer of money to you, they have to feel solid; they have to feel they are getting something that will make them more, because they are paying out and becoming less right now. If you are solid and contained and secure, it helps them feel solid, so they transfer their cash more readily.

  Stuart Wilde

  Love, People, Giving

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• Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.

  Karen E. Quinones Miller

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, People

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• What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Lonely, Encouragement, Creative

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• For instance, people who have to walk miles for water - and we just turn on the faucet and let it run. Or people right here in our country [USA] who are food insecure, and yet we as a nation throw out an inconceivable amount of food.

  Joy Bryant

  Running, Country, Usa

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• Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them.

  Mutabaruka

  Men, Ideas, Political

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