Anne Lamott Quotes

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.

I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?'

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

I don't always understand my worth.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

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 went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I had low self-esteem.

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.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

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

I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person's friend. But we all know what we're insecure about. The question I had as I was writing was, 'How are these things affecting the way I live? How am I compensating because I don't like this about myself? What do I do to cover it up?'

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

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.