Merv Griffin Quotes

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

I know I'm unpopular.

There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

If people don't like you, people don't like you. It's as simple as that.

When you're the cool guy, you don't know how to take people not liking you. I've already been there, done that.

Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way.

I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.

I just spent five, six years sacrificing so much to try and fit into that one ideal, that one small standard, and I was never good enough. And it was just frustration that turned into motivation... That became my ammunition, all the people that told me I couldn't.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Clinton's a schmuck.

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you.

I was a loser in high school.

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

Lots of people hate my stuff.

I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.

Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.