Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

For me, I never want anyone outside of my immediate family and outside of me to have the power to alter the way that I walk, talk, shop, or date. When you start feeding off of that outside acceptance and accolades, you lose sight of what's actually real. Once you get there, it's kind of hard to double back.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

This might sound bad, but I really want to work with Eva Marie, just because it seems like that's what people want.

It is too exhausting to try and make everyone happy or pretend.

When I met people in the past, even before saying hello, I felt like I should explain myself: This isn't who I am!

I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there's always going to be expectations.

I felt like I needed to be a 'pretty girl' for someone else. I felt like I needed to change a lot about who I actually was to be perfect for them instead of just being who I am genuinely.

I've learned I can't change every opinion or have everyone's approval. If I get caught up in that, I'm worried about the wrong things.

It really stresses me out to think about what other people think about me.

If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

I used to have the mindset of worrying about everybody else's opinions, trying to please everybody, but that's not going to happen.

It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.

If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.