Sally Rooney Quotes

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

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

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

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

You always try to prove yourself.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.

I didn't quite believe I was pretty for a long time. I never thought about it.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.

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

I should have more vanity.

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.

Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.

Let's be honest: I call myself a titan. I've got issues.

I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy.

We're all insecure, aren't we? I'm not walking around like I'm macho man or anything.

I know I'm underrated.

I didn't take myself seriously for a long time.