There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am I bad, am I being judged, who likes me, who doesn't like me...'
I think there's something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don't care about anyone's approval.
The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.
Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
Looking back on my early romantic life, I was more worried about what impression I made on my dates than what I thought of them. I would approach them as though they were job interviews, trying to wow the man so that he would ask me out again and I got the 'job.'
As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
I want people to like me.
Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.
I'm an Aries. I need everybody to like me.
As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.
My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.
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.
Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.
Everyone wants to be liked.
I realize my need to be liked or my need for strangers to rate me well, even with their words and their thoughts, I'm not alone in that, and the whole thing is set up culturally so we feel that way.
I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.
When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.
Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
So many people are paralyzed by worrying, "What are these people going to think?"
