Dan Hill Quotes

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

A bedrock of insecurity made me want to impress and want to be the center of attention.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That's why they go into acting!

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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

I've always had that chip on my shoulder, felt the need to prove myself.

I was a big athlete, but I think a lot of the things I did were because they were my false identity, if you will. They got me acceptance, and they got me that attention that I craved.

The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

I think insecurity does drive people. I know it's what drove me to push for the work I've got.

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.