Grace Slick Quotes

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

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

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

You go from nobody looking at you to people taking second looks. I remember really loving it - and then feeling so guilty for loving it. Like, 'That's gross, Kristen.' Also, telling myself it could go away at any moment, and I'd be so sad.

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

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.

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me for more than just what I was showing off for.

I just want people to see me. I want people to say that Shannon Briggs is someone that looked good.

I'm not the sort of person who if everyone thinks you're fabulous you thrive on it.

I was never going to be the one to get recognition because of my looks.

I felt like my body was the only reason why people liked me.

Looking back, I can't say I got any real satisfaction from so many people being interested in what I looked like.

I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough.