Amala Paul Quotes

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

I don't like my ego stroked too much.

I just don't want to be seen as a strong person.

The male ego is a terrifying, terrifying thing, you know? If it's shattered, it becomes even more dangerous.

I thought I was bulletproof, and I'm not.

I really think insecurity is something that comes with being an actor - I don't know actors who aren't insecure. I do think I kind of lie to myself - there is a percentage of ego involved. And I don't say that's a bad thing - it's good to know that it's there whether we like it or not. But ego is like a lion that we have to keep under control.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

Everything that happened to me as a child was the perfect breeding ground for a rock n' roll singer. It toughened me up. I was on edge; I was needy. I needed people to like me 'cause it made me feel safe... and that gave me confidence.

A lot of things you do to cover up insecurities can be just as harmful to you as anything else.

I had this ego that was unstable. If you said anything about me good or bad, it really went to my head.

I'm quite gregarious. But when it comes to relationships, I mean, I'm no good at it. I suck at it. And people say I'm way too hard on myself, but I always feel like somebody else is going to say it if I don't. Why not just beat them to the punch so it doesn't hurt so much?

Even just a little bit of praise can weaken you.

I don't like to show my weaknesses.

Sometimes I worry about things changing and people not liking me any more. As a comedian you do feel like you're walking on a knife edge.

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Honestly, not being well received makes me feel very vulnerable. Not being included or regarded highly enough makes me crazy.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.