Mike Gallagher Quotes

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.

I never Google myself. Only if I want to feel really terrible about myself would I do that.

Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

You would not hang out with people that talk to you the way you talk to yourself. So get out of your head! Your feelings! Your feelings are screwing you! I don't care how you feel! I care about what you want! And if you listen to how you feel, when it comes to what you want - you will not get it. Because you will never feel like it.

If anyone says negative things about me, then it stays with me for many years.

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.

I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?'

I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you're constantly surrounded by people saying, 'Oh, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's this, she's whatever.' And you're right there. They're talking about you, and you're right there.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like, 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes...' I was an idiot... It's a decade of tears.

I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.