Marion Barry Quotes

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

Successful people tend to feel simultaneously inadequate and superior.

I've always been quite an insecure person.

I always seek people's approval and I'm always never good enough.

I never felt good enough about myself. I could be better at this, I could be better at that. I could look better. My work could be better. That whole idea that you're going to get caught, you're going to be found out as a fraud. That's one of those reasons I got up at 2:30 in the morning.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

I haven't met a woman without insecurities.

I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

I'm usually pretty insecure.

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.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.