Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

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

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

I had low self-esteem.

I never give myself enough credit.

self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

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.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

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

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

I'm not that good looking.

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

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

We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

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

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

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I don't like myself, and I don't like to be looked at.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

I'm ugly.