Michael McKean Quotes

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a 'Chosen Dad' who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives.

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

I know I've got to learn to believe in myself.

I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.

For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

I don't have much of an ego, but I have a great deal of confidence!

I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.

If someone comes to me and says they're not capable of being loved, I want to reach out to them and tell them that everybody's loveable. If a man is forced or wants to become a better man, then I root for him. Everybody needs to be loved.

I never wanted anyone's pity.

Be kind to yourself.