Ronan Keating Quotes

I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.

I'm forever making it out like I have got it all together and I know what I'm doing. The truth is I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Sometimes I may come off like I know what I'm doing or I'm confident, but I'm not always.

We all have insecurities, but some of us are better at covering them up.

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

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.

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

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

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.

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

I don't know, I don't know how to do anything. I'm just like, doing impressions of what I've seen other people do, and hoping no one knows that I'm actually just a little monster in a human suit making my arms go up and down.

People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does.

I think I've always acted confident, even at times I haven't been confident.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

I was a pretty confident kid, even if it was all false bravado.

My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.