Jeanne Phillips Quotes

I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.

Irrespective of my father's support, if people don't like me there's nothing my family status can do about it.

My entire life goal was to be accepted by everyone. I think that's what I wanted the most. I never got it.

Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.

I could never dream of being cool.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

I was the hallway clown in high school.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

Now tell me, why am I not popular in England?

Like any other all-American boy, I wanted to be just thought of as popular, be well-liked, and meet a lot of cute girls.

I think we all want to fit in at a young age.

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

When I was growing up, man, I didn't know myself. I was striving for respect. Trying to be cool for the girls. I wasn't the biggest dude and I'm a nice guy.

I want people to feel happy in their own skins and feel accepted by society.

That young man that I was in 1988 - I was insecure. Besides making good music, I wanted to be cool; I wanted to be accepted and stuff.

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

Every young person needs to have a character that they can identify with and feel included by.