Pete Holmes Quotes

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

If you're you, it doesn't matter if you're the most boring person in the world: someone will like you. You're not trying to be anyone else.

It means so much to be able to share myself with the world.

People will appreciate who you are when you're naturally being who you are.

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and do exactly what I wanted to do. That way I would never have to change for anybody.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Growing up, I wasn't as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that's why I chose acting: because it's acceptable to have your feelings. It's a place that they want you to feel. Whereas in life, growing up, it was 'Be quiet!' and 'Keep it to yourself.'

I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough,'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.

If I can't be me and be accepted and loved for that, then what's the point?

I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don't invalidate me.

I'd say for those people who don't feel like they fit in, I'd want them to ask themselves why they want to, who they are trying to please, and whether or not those people are worth it. You know what they say: 'If they don't want you, then they don't deserve to have you.'

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.