Emily Ratajkowski Quotes

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age.

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

People love drama. They feed off of it.

You realise that there's nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero, you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad?

Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.

A bedrock of insecurity made me want to impress and want to be the center of attention.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.

That's stupid." "That's people.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

I'm very interested in people, in general.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.