Desire for Approval Quotes

Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

I'm tired of hearing people say 'Reggie Jackson needs New York, needs the media, needs the attention.' I've always gotten it whenever I wanted it.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

I want to be liked. Everybody wants to be liked.

But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked.

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.

Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.

Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.

I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.

Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.

That's basically what the drive is: "I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved of." That's basically what you're after. "Give me attention, give me applause, give me an audience. A. A. A. Straight As." That's all you're looking for.

She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

Wanting attention is genderless. It's human.