Taylor Swift Quotes

I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.

Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!

I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.

The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.

I wish I didn't care about what people say about me, but I do.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

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.

If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses.

I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

I have always admired people who are comfortable not being liked because I am the opposite of that. To the point when I was little, it was crippling.

Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

I think that I'm shy and I judge myself. But at the same time, I also have big contradictions. I can be sometimes sure of myself as well. I'm not always fragile and vulnerable. I can feel tough and strong.