Eric Andre Quotes

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.

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

I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family.

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

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

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

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?'

I have to prove myself to everybody.

You'll always feel lonely if you always need validation. People don't like to be around those kinds of people.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

I hate bad reviews, so yeah, every now and then I think, 'Boy I hope everybody really likes this and thinks this theme is good.' You can't help but do that. I think we all are, or at least I am, reduced to a schoolboy seeking approval.

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

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

I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.

For such a long time in my life, I didn't trust my own voice at all. I always tried to do what other people wanted.

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way we know we're good is when other people tell us.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.