Anne Hathaway Quotes

I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

I've always been a people pleaser.

I am an approval junkie.

Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.

As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.

The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her what she likes. The nice girl makes the mistake of shrugging her shoulders and saying: 'I like anything you like.'

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

I'm a yes person. I'm too concerned with trying to make too many people happy.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.

I tend to be overly responsible for other people's feelings.

When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.

I can't bear not to be liked, and I've always been a people pleaser.

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

I'm too insecure to have people hate me.

I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when you're a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.

Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.'

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

It really is like a disease. I just couldn't get away from the theater.

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.

I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.

I think my whole life, I put a lot of energy into pleasing other people, and trying to make jokes, and trying to make people laugh.