Rosamund Pike Quotes

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing.

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.

I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.

All my life - middle school, high school - I've always been worried what are people going to think.

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

I was always worried about what others were thinking about me or how I was being perceived.

I get insecure about a lot of things. In my line of work, unfortunately, your appearance is important, and I'm always like, 'Am I going to the gym enough this month? Have I been taking care of myself?' I get insecure about things from time to time.

At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

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 still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

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