Mae Martin Quotes

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

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.

I used to care too much what people thought.

I always felt like a fraud.

I want people to like me, and I care what they think.

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.

It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.

Everyone fears rejection.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

I never feel like I have anything. People can tell me a thousand times, 'You're the guy, you're the guy,' and I'm just like, 'We'll see when I'm on the set.'

I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not.

When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

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.

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.

My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.