John McWhorter Quotes

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

We thrive on blaming others, which is a form of self-pity

I am a drama queen!

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

In Hollywood, a lot of acting feels like grandstanding.

I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.

'Stop playing the victim.' - unless you've been cast in a community theater production of 'Law & Order: SVU,' I'm not sure why anyone would choose to play victim.

I was a natural drama queen when I was younger. I was always doing impersonations and showing off.

Too many cry babies in this game.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.

We can only make ourselves the victim.

I never play the victim, I’d rather be a stalker.

Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.