John Lithgow Quotes

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

We all have the need to feel special.

Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?'

People have always questioned, Was I crazy? And I'm like, 'No, I'm not crazy. I'm just totally committed.'

I don't have anything else to prove.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

I took a selfie to prove to myself that I exist!