Colin Quinn Quotes

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

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!

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

Ego is good.

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

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.

I had low self-esteem.

Even though I felt, at times, 'My goodness, you're among the upper echelon,' there is still a huge void there. A huge void. It is about self-esteem. That's a thing that has always been a real complex part of my life.

Everybody has an ego, and they don't like their athletic ability to be questioned.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors because we are insecure people who want to be looked at. That was the reason I became an actor.

I've had a lot of self-esteem issues.

self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

I am confident and I work so hard to be confident. If I wasn't talented, then I wouldn't be as confident.

I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.