Barry Gibb Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

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'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 could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove.

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 love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

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

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 can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

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

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

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.