Derren Brown Quotes

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.

My personality is a personality where I get really, really nervous and doubtful about almost everything, which is always a work in progress to build up my confidence a little bit more.

Even when I was young, I cared too much about what other people thought, especially girls.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.

I've just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used to just hide, and now I just accept that I'm an imperfect human.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

I wish I didn't care about what people say about me, but I do.

A lot of my career and my drive and my passion and my striving to be better and better was built on insecurity.

Every job I took, I was deeply uncomfortable in terms of feeling unqualified. Every step, every risk I took, built confidence.

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

Maybe I'm not a good enough artist that people just think of me. Maybe in the future, I'll bloom into something that will just make people look at me for what I am.

Many people are insecure of many people.

I do care about what people think about me sometimes, and sometimes it affects me in a negative way.

The need to make sure everyone knows all of the great stuff about us is usually an insecurity in itself.

I had so much self doubt in the past, but I'm trying to push myself.

I was always worried about what others were thinking about me or how I was being perceived.

One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way we know we're good is when other people tell us.

If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

I've learned from personal experience that insecurity and doubting yourself can really hurt you.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light