Suzanne Collins Quotes

With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

I'm not great at talking about myself.

I'm somebody who hasn't really felt fairly confident in my own life.

I never had a lot of confidence in myself.

I have to say that I am embarrassed about how emotional I am.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

I have a tough time judging myself.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

I was never my favourite subject.

I know this sounds stupid, but in some ways, the way I look is a drawback.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

It's tough being me.

You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.