Bernhard Schlink Quotes

My confidence sort of comes and goes very quickly.

I don't always understand my worth.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.

Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress... But I don’t really have a perception issue. I’ve been pretty good about being who I am in the public’s eye.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

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

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

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

Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

Confidence is a fragile thing.

Everyone around me has more confidence in me than I do in myself.

I didn't know I was good enough to be a pro growing up.

I'm not someone that always feels confident about himself.

You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

There are times in your life when you feel like the dumbest man on the planet and you’re insecure about something, and then there are times where you feel like, “Hey, I’m a pretty smart guy and I’m pulling it together …”

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

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.