Rik Mayall Quotes

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.

I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

People call me crazy and a madman. Even 'Tasmanian Devil.' I'd rather be called the 'Tasmanian Angel.'

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.

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

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

Ego is good.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.