Shawn Michaels Quotes

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.

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 think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved.

People who have trouble finding acceptance and love in their life settle for whatever they can get.

You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored.

Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.

Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.

You ask if you look good and you know people are lying. It was a depressing thing to experience. I was going to these parties where I used to be ignored and then all of a sudden people are paying attention to me.

I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

I really can't stand not to be loved. I really can't. If I walk into a room and feel there are people who don't really like me, I have to leave.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

One cost, for the lonely: If you want to be interesting, the one thing you shouldn't do is really focus on the fact that 'I want this person to like me.' That's going to make you very uninteresting. But the lonely, they just can't help but focus on that.

I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.

If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.