Aldous Harding Quotes

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

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

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

I try not to think about what people think of me. You can't, because then you get hung up in all the people who love you, and you've also got all the people who hate you, because of what you're doing.

I'm not on the stage going, 'Look at me! I'm amazing!' I accept my vulnerability, don't pretend I'm something I'm not. I don't want to come across as fake.

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.

Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.

I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others

I have always admired people who are comfortable not being liked because I am the opposite of that. To the point when I was little, it was crippling.

In high school, I felt pressure to fit in with groups and with people who didn't actually want to be my friend. That's something I learned moving forward into adulthood: to keep the people around me people who love me for exactly who I am.