Natalie Wood Quotes

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

I just don't want to be seen as a strong person.

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

I have a tough time judging myself.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

I'm usually pretty insecure.

I've always been more slight, and I've always sort of felt that I needed to be protected, especially with so many rowdy brothers and sisters.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

I am really terrible when it comes to guys. Inside, I just see myself as this overweight tomboy with funny-coloured hair and bad skin.

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.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

I consider myself a little weak.

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.