Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.

Russell Crowe

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

Richard Gere

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

Winona Ryder

I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.

Yoko Ono

Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.

Mila Kunis

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

Elle Macpherson

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.

Kabir Bedi

Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

Nelson Mandela

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.

Neil Strauss

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

Noah Webster

The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

Noam Chomsky

If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.

Moby

The people who get more fame, who get more money, more often than not they are miserable, insecure and on anti-depressants. It's strange that everyone keeps buying into this idea that more success is good, that more fame is good, that more money is good. Yet, we look at the people who have more success, more fame, more money and they're miserable.

Julia Sawalha

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

Kelsey Grammer

The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.

Katherine Webb

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

Katie Price

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

Kristen Bell

Anyone who is gossiping is just insecure about that person they're gossiping about.

Kristen Bell

I find that the vast majority of people who are judging are just fearful or insecure.

Nicole Richie

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

Mary-Louise Parker

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

Paget Brewster

I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.

Lily Cole

I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.

Lea Michele

I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can't help but feel insecure.

Lauren Oliver

There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's not infuriating. Today I like it, feel like it's somehow rubbing off on me, like if I was around him enough I would never feel awkward or frightened or insecure.

Lake Bell

I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

Pindar

Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

Pink

I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict.

Paulo Coelho

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

Terry Gilliam

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

Selena Gomez

You made me insecure, Told me I wasn't good enough.

Marco Rubio

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

Marc Jacobs

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.