Jimmy Barnes Quotes

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

I felt inferior. I had this tremendous need to perform. I wanted to be acceptable to my peers. I thought if I could just be a big star, I'd feel like somebody, too.

I am very insecure because that's how I have played cricket. Since Under-14, I was told, 'If you don't perform, you will be dropped.' I have started living with this system.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves. We don't pay a whole lot of attention to any type of judgment that we might get from outside people. I think that comes from growing up onstage.