Derren Brown Quotes

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

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

I am an approval junkie.

You always look to impress.

With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a façade.

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.

The most uninteresting thing for me is when somebody thinks too much about how they put themselves together.

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

Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

It's all about impressing people.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

Of course I don't think I have it made by any means. I'm too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that.

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