Claire Danes Quotes

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

My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

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.

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

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

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.

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

People striving for approval from others become phony.

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

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

For a long time, it was all about chart position. 'If my record doesn't come in at No. 1, I'm a failure.' I cared too much about what people thought of me, and that was symptomatic of the trauma from my childhood.

You can never satisfy other people, I learned. End of the day, it's extremely important that you know yourself better than anybody else, and if you can do that, it doesn't matter what anybody thinks about you, good or bad.

I want people to like me, and I care what they think.

If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.

I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!

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

It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.