Colleen Ballinger Quotes

I was an angry kid.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn't really have a childhood - I had to grow up so quick and there was no real enjoyment in that for me.

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

However beautiful a woman may be, she gets cold feet, she gets angry, she fears, she has insecurity - she is a human being.

For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

I'm quite an emotional person... I ain't just this Northern brat all the time.

I realized I'd built up walls and carried grudges for years. I had a lot of animosity, dating back to when I was growing up, toward people who told me that what I was doing datingwise was wrong.

Everybody's in a situation; everybody has a story. It's about finding out why.

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

"Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out.

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like?... What I do is put that together.

There are a lot of guys who think that if they show weakness or vulnerability they're not sexy anymore or attractive. In my opinion, you can't be too open or too gentle or kind or sensitive. If you really want to work on a relationship and have one that lasts, you have to be willing to go deep into human psychology and emotion. If you don't want to go there, you can be a serial dater, and I guess that's okay, but if you want a relationship with a woman, you have to be introspective and look at yourself and your family and where you've been and where you're going.

Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.

The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.

I was incredibly confident on stage because that's where I loved to be. But offstage, there was no balance. I was a little shy kid that went onstage. And I always said, cocaine was the drug that made me open up. I could talk to people. But then it became the drug that closed me down. So it started out by making me talk to everyone, and then ended up by me isolating myself alone with it; which is the end of the world, really.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.