Taylor Schilling Quotes

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

Everyone wants to be recognized.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.

When my friends and family call me Josie, it feels like I'm being seen. It's something everyone wants, to feel understood.

I love when things that I'm involved in really matter and when people like me back and don't just think I'm corny.

We live in the physical world, the age of the Internet, and it's very easy to disappear from view and isolate ourselves from the rest of world and become invisible.

I still want to play where I'm valued.

We all want to be appreciated. Don't we?

I try not to spend too much time online but at the same time if I didn't, I'd be isolated.

I don't always feel seen.

On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're good or that you're worth going to see or worth taping a show. There's a lot of pain here. There's a lot of pain inside. I'm a sad, crying-on-the-inside kind of clown.

You need anything else... You to touch me like I matter.

I'm also lonely. I'll admit it. I go to Twitter because I'm lonely. I get my coffee in the morning, and I live alone. I get on Twitter, and I sit and have my coffee. Sometimes I'll look at it for 30 minutes. I will waste a lot of time on Twitter. I do! But it's my guilty pleasure. And I'll look for some happy stories to retweet, and I'll say some uplifting things to people. I try not to get caught into - I used to get tangled up into some crazy stuff. But I try not to do that anymore.

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

I've seen so many of my friends and collaborators struggle and face the challenge of feeling like what they're working so hard to create and put into the world isn't important or appreciated... it's like being in love with someone who won't give you the time of day.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.