Geena Davis Quotes

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

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'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

It's a challenge for me to make people like me. Maybe it's just my desperate need for people to like me, that I choose the characters I have to play. You will like me, I don't care what I've done, you're going to like me.

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.

It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller or thinner or prettier...and we still want it... but we aren't going to get it from other people until we can get it from ourselves.

So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

I don't need to impress children.

My acting gives me my self-worth.

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.

I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.

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

Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.

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

I went through it in high school. It's like, 'Who am I? Am I good enough? Is my background good enough? I know I'm different, but do I have a voice?'

The people who know me, know me. Those are the only ones I worry about.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

I deeply believed that I wasn't worthy - that I couldn't be in the stories even I was creating. I don't want anyone else to feel like that.