Robert Greene Quotes

People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

When you're an insecure teenager, you build walls and defenses and masks, and those are incredibly satisfying to perform and chip away at. I mean, when I was an insecure teenager, you'd have had no idea what I was insecure about because I hid it so well. Only confident people are comfortable wearing their vulnerabilities on their sleeve.

I've always had that chip on my shoulder, felt the need to prove myself.

I was a big athlete, but I think a lot of the things I did were because they were my false identity, if you will. They got me acceptance, and they got me that attention that I craved.

I can't bear not to be liked, and I've always been a people pleaser.

I don't like to show my weaknesses.

(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.

Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.

I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.

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

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

I'm worried about myself. Glizzy gang, that's it. I'm not worried about no other rappers.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others

When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

I have always admired people who are comfortable not being liked because I am the opposite of that. To the point when I was little, it was crippling.

As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away.

I am insecure about tomorrow. Will I get another job? Will it be appreciated? I will pursue acting for as long as I have a face and body that is acceptable to the people, but I still worry that if I don't do better tomorrow, it will all go away.

Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.

For whatever reason, it's easier to perform in front of a massive crowd than in front of a small one, but again, that's how we came up.

Nothing expresses lack of inner confidence like bluster.

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.