Jeffree Star Quotes

I like people wanting to know about me.

Growing up, if I had been given any advice - bad or good - I probably wouldn't have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn't shy, but I'd get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh.

I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me for more than just what I was showing off for.

I was never cool as a kid.

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

I love attention. Maybe my desire for attention is a little too out of control, but I'm very honest.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.

I'm not the sort of person who if everyone thinks you're fabulous you thrive on it.

That young man that I was in 1988 - I was insecure. Besides making good music, I wanted to be cool; I wanted to be accepted and stuff.

When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

I like being talked about. I think some people really don't... because they're secure enough and they don't need that.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

Everyone has those times when you feel like you don't fit in. Everyone struggles to a certain extent with being cool and popular, but I never really let it affect me. I played sports and did theater, and school was really important to me. I had fun in high school.

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.