Sue Grafton Quotes

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

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

I'm usually pretty insecure.

I've always been quite an insecure person.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!" "I hate myself for being so unreasonable!

Like many people, I think I'm my own worst critic. And I think I take a lot out in an internally abusive way, looking at how I measure up, which usually was never enough. I never, never was as good as someone else.

Do you feel insecure because you keep getting the nagging feeling that you're not that smart? Well, I've got good news for you, my friend. You have no need to be insecure. That nagging feeling is absolutely right on target. You are not that smart. But I have more good news for you. You are also not alone.

When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I have a tough time judging myself.

I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.

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 was never my favourite subject.

Even though I'm in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues... from the way that I look or the way that I talk... just nitpicking at myself.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

A lot of girls think they have flaws that really aren't flaws. I've never met a girl who was just so secure about everything.

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