Megan McCafferty Quotes

I'm very sensitive; I'm not moody.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

I'm a pretty positive person, so a bad mood is quite a big deal.

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

"My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside."

By any rational metric, I am boring.

The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.

You can only see in others what is inside of you.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

My personality doesn't interest me.

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.