Johnny Vegas Quotes

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

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

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.

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

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

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

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'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.

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

I am an approval junkie.

A bedrock of insecurity made me want to impress and want to be the center of attention.

For such a long time in my life, I didn't trust my own voice at all. I always tried to do what other people wanted.

I want people to like me and, if there's any doubt, I sort of worry.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

When a nice girl overcompensates, her behavior says, “What I have to offer isn’t enough, and who I am isn’t enough.

We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

I think I prioritize other people's opinions of me very highly, which is not necessarily a good thing - it's a thing that causes a lot of anxiety.

I'm an Aries. I need everybody to like me.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.