Oliver Sykes Quotes

I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

As long as those pretty girls notice me, I don't care if they say, 'Ghastly, horrible'... I live for the beautiful angels.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

It's a better boost to my ego that people are commenting positively on my appearance than negatively.

Only when you feel good about yourself will others look up to you.

I'm always trying to prove myself to the rest of the world.

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

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

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'