Dixie Carter Quotes

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

Trust me; I have not exactly been the best husband material.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.

I feel like it's weird to list all my crap qualities.

I always assume that a chick is not into me. So it's never natural for me to be like, 'Check out that girl in the corner. She's waiting for me to come up to her. I'm gonna to work my six-step process...'

I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

Nothing expresses lack of inner confidence like bluster.

I never thought what I wrote was good enough to be published. I thought of myself as completely detached from that constellation of real writers. It was completely for myself.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

I've always been quite an insecure person.

I suffer from imposter syndrome all the time. Even if I'm just at a party, I'm thinking people are going to find out that I'm really boring.

If you have a history of being attracted to people who have failed you in relationships, find people that aren't so exciting and aren't quite so attractive. Try that on for size and see if you can tolerate that.

It's not that I don't like other people - I do. I just don't like me.