Insecurity Quotes

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
Lauryn Hill

Fear, Black, Thought

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.
Tony Blair

Confidence, Together, Fall

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.
Rod Stewart

Business, Away, Talk

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

Inside, Swagger, Bears

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
Harlan Coben

Good, Bad, Away

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.
Tom Vilsack

Food, Children, Among

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Miranda Richardson

Actor, Normal, Weakness

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
Charlie Kaufman

Different, Times

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.
Lake Bell

Find, Read, Fat

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.
Drew Carey

Living, Miss, Economic

I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
Sally Kirkland

Business, Keep, Matter

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
Ron Wyden

Health, Care, Silence

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

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
Ray Romano

Insecure, Makes, Show

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.
Gloria Gaynor

Find, Perfect, Why

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
Illeana Douglas

Around, Standing, Studio

It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
Ray Romano

Makes, Audience, Comic

I was wracked with insecurity.
Ray Romano

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds

Best, Old, Force

When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.
Jenson Button

Family, Bad, Help

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
Gustav Heinemann

Hope, Order, Mingle

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
Sally Kirkland

Wisdom, Important, Her

We're all our own worst critics and so hard on ourselves, but for me, my biggest insecurity is my arms. I just hate the tops of them. I work out and they still never look good enough for me. So, over the years I've learned to dress to make myself feel better.
Khloe Kardashian

Work, Good, Hate

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
Douglas Wood

Great, Rejection, Actor

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

Words, Word, Meaning

I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.
Werner Herzog

Times, Film, Financial

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger.
Angie Harmon

Getting, Older, Biggest

Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
Zach Galifianakis

Trying, Guilty, Hollywood

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
Ben Whishaw

Confidence, Anybody, Terrible

When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.
Laurieann Gibson

Dreams, Music, Rock

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