Kristian Nairn Quotes

I wish I were tall, like my friend Lee Kwang Soo.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

Miss India actually made me feel small.

I'm not the most beautiful one of my family.

I'm not that good looking.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.

I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.' And, 'You're not beautiful,' and this and that.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and that's an insecurity of mine.

I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

With Instagram and Twitter, you're constantly looking at other people and comparing yourself to them, and it's just not beneficial. There is always going to be someone skinnier or prettier or with better skin, and that same girl you're looking at is comparing herself to someone else.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.