Sean Hayes Quotes

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

If you don't believe you don't belong.

The only thing I can give to young gay people is that when I was growing up, there were no role models that were blokey that were men. Everybody was flamboyant and camp, and I remember going, 'That's not me, so even though I think I am gay, I don't think I fit into this world.'

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

I like my friends because they make me feel normal, even though I'm not.

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

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

I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.

It doesn't matter what gender you are, or it doesn't matter what other background you come from: everybody deals with insecurity.

I think we all want to fit in at a young age.

I want people to feel happy in their own skins and feel accepted by society.

My entire life goal was to be accepted by everyone. I think that's what I wanted the most. I never got it.

I never pictured myself being liked by anybody.

I always felt a bit of a nerd, but my family gets me and my oddities. My kids and partner are way cooler than I am, but they let me in the room with them.

I related to 'Sierra' in the fact that I tend to come off as pretty confident in who I am, but definitely in high school I had a lot of insecurity and was unsure if I should be changing myself to fit in more.

I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.

When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.