Paul Giamatti Quotes

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

I want to be liked... No, I want to be more than just liked... I want people to say, "that Charlie Brown is a great guy!" And when people are at parties, I want them to look for me, and when I finally arrive, I want them to say, "here comes good ol' Charlie Brown... Now everything will be all right!" I want to be a special person... I want to be needed... It's kind of hard to explain... Do you understand? I mean, do you know what I'm talking about?" "Sure, I understand perfectly..." "Well?" "Forget it! Five cents, please!

It feels really great to be popular.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.

Some people just want to be accepted.

I want every single person to like my work.

I want to be liked. Everybody wants to be liked.

Wanting to be accepted is something I like a lot of people can relate to.

I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.

I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.

I think people love to be noticed, they love to feel included. A lot of people are flattered if you, you know, if you make jokes about them, or I think because it means they're known.

Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

You want that - peers respecting what you're doing.

You want to please society. You want to be happy. You want to be well liked. You want to be held in high esteem and be respected. These are real things. You want respect from your peers, respect from your loved ones; you want to be looked up to for your achievements and your accomplishments. All of this requires conformity in some form or another.

We all want approval.

My whole thing was being wanted and being accepted by a ball club. That was the most important thing to me.

I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.

Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.

Everyone wants to be liked.

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!