Neil Morrissey Quotes

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

I have always admired people who are comfortable not being liked because I am the opposite of that. To the point when I was little, it was crippling.

I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.

I am the kind of person who does want very badly to be liked. I'm a right-miserable little show off.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.

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

I'm too insecure to have people hate me.

I've always been a people pleaser.

I want people to like me and, if there's any doubt, I sort of worry.

They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

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

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

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

I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.

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

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

A bedrock of insecurity made me want to impress and want to be the center of attention.

I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough.

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.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.