Chandra Wilson Quotes

I can't bear not to be liked, and I've always been a people pleaser.

I have to prove myself five times over.

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

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.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

I have to prove myself to everybody.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

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

I didn't have stage parents and sometimes I've envied people who did because I felt like, I guess, I'm compulsively worried I'm not accomplishing enough.

I am very self-doubting; it has come out of experience.

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

You realise that there's nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero, you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad?

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

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've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

When I was in high school, there was a lot of pressure on me. I felt like I had to be perfect.

Because I've got an AFI award, I feel there is a certain expectation when I walk into a room, you know, that 'That Deb Mailman must know something!' But I'm just as nervous with every experience. I still doubt whether or not I can pull something off. I still think, 'When is the review going to come along that says Deb Mailman's not very good?'

I'm really not that confident!

I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.

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.