Selena Gomez Quotes

It's one of the worst nightmare situations we could create for a young character, having the people who are supposed to believe in you keep telling you you're nothing.

I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small

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 was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

It hurts when people put you down.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

My dad will always criticize me. He doesn't care if it hurts my feelings. If I start acting a certain way, he would be like, 'Who do you think you are?' So many people can tell me, 'You're amazing,' but I don't think it. I'm really hard on myself.

Paper Doll' is about being bullied, and about having someone in your life who is constantly trying to put you down, and trying to make you feel like you are not good enough being who you are.

I was made to believe there's something wrong with me.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

You don't have to listen to those mean girls. They're just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don't wanna admit it to anybody.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.

All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

You can get a million comments about how beautiful you look and how awesome you are, but the one comment that says they hate you and you're ugly is the one that sticks.

I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.

I haven't met a woman without insecurities.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.