Jeff Gutt Quotes

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.

I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.

I spent so long trying to be other people, and it made me really deeply unhappy.

I never wanted to lose who I am, my character or my integrity for the sake of Hollywood.

I'm a pleaser, but it's not a good thing because you forget about pleasing yourself at the end of the day.

When you're young and you're comin' up, and you dream of gettin' this record deal, and then you actually get it, and, you know, its apples and oranges from everything that you pictured. The line was pretty self-explanatory to me: once I got in my major label agreement, I definitely couldn't deal with it. It was drivin' me crazy, givin' me gray hairs at an early age.

If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

I'm not going to sell myself just because I want to be a champion, just because I want to make more money, you know?

I struggled with depression when I was in high school, and I remember thinking that if I got a record deal and got a hit song, that it would solve all those problems for me.

It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.

You lose yourself when you first become a mum. It's easy to let yourself go.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

I used to want to kill myself because I had lost so much of who I knew I was because of all the other invalidation from people. It sends you spiraling where you're like, Wait, I know I have this quality, I know what my integrity is - until you're being fed all this false information about yourself. You start to wonder why. You don't feel good about yourself because you no longer believe in yourself.

When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.