Kirsten Dunst Quotes

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

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.

I am an approval junkie.

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

I'm an Aries. I need everybody to like me.

My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.

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

I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

I am not the type of player who thinks he has to prove anything to people on Saturday.

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.

I want people to like me, and I care what they think.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.