Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

I want to be liked... No, I want to be more than just liked... I want people to say, "that Charlie Brown is a great guy!" And when people are at parties, I want them to look for me, and when I finally arrive, I want them to say, "here comes good ol' Charlie Brown... Now everything will be all right!" I want to be a special person... I want to be needed... It's kind of hard to explain... Do you understand? I mean, do you know what I'm talking about?" "Sure, I understand perfectly..." "Well?" "Forget it! Five cents, please!

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

It's refreshing going from getting picked on in middle school to getting my name screamed out across the street.

Having the respect of your peers means the world to me.

Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.

I want the whole country to love me and I have no qualms in admitting it.

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

It feels really great to be popular.

See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.

There's no better feeling in the world than when I walk in a pub, or a nightclub or a bar or a supermarket, anywhere, and you see people out the corner of your eye and they're going, 'Hey, there's Ricky Hatton. Isn't he a good lad, coming for a pint with us in here?' It makes you feel proud.

It's nice to get compliments from both girls and guys.

Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.

A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

I think there's something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don't care about anyone's approval.

I do, in a strange way, care deeply what people think.

I want people to like me, and I care what they think.