Spike Jonze Quotes

You ask if you look good and you know people are lying. It was a depressing thing to experience. I was going to these parties where I used to be ignored and then all of a sudden people are paying attention to me.

I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

You can be cocky and confident, but when you start developing feelings for someone, suddenly your self-esteem drops a bit.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.

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.

I've been so low sometimes and when everyone else would be so high because I didn't like myself.

I used to worry that if I wasn't having a dynamic life, then I wouldn't have anything to talk about.

There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'

I hope people don't get bored of me. That fear is always there.

I'm hugely affected by what people think. It could be a million people saying, 'Great.' And then one person writes, 'What the hell is this kid doing?' and starts slagging me off, for some reason, and then I have to join in the blog and sign in under a different name and go,'Why don't you like him?'

For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive promise of being liked by everyone.

Growing up, I never felt like I was very pretty, because I didn't look like anyone else, and the boys weren't lining up to get with me. I internalized that and thought there was something wrong with me.

The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their self-esteem. They don't think they fit in.

The need to make sure everyone knows all of the great stuff about us is usually an insecurity in itself.

For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.

I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.

I'm insecure, and I need the validation of strangers to feel whole. So, I need every single racist 12-year-old on the Internet to like me, or I don't feel complete.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove.

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.

I had this big complex because I didn't go to college. There was a whole era where I got linked to everybody. People that I had never met. I was like, "How? I'm home alone reading chapter 12 of a book."

When a nice girl overcompensates, her behavior says, “What I have to offer isn’t enough, and who I am isn’t enough.