Sue Townsend Quotes

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

Yes, I was on the cover of 'Vogue,' but girls on the cover of 'Vogue' are the most scared of rejection. Models are the most insecure of them all. Actually, actors and actresses are, and then musicians, and then models!

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

Competitiveness only comes with insecurity.

I feel overestimated.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

It really stresses me out to think about what other people think about me.

For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.

I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing.

I have to prove myself five times over.

'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.