Need for Recognition Quotes

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.

I've always been an attention seeker. I've always demanded attention and I'll do anything to get it.

You realise that there's nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero, you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad?

The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.

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.

The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

Public people are definitely captives. It wasn't really my ambition, but that's what happened. If I could find another word that would be more precise, I'd tell that I'm captive of my need for acknowledgement. People ask me, "Isn't it terrible to be famous?" Not for me! I sort of need it. To be honest, I always enjoyed it. It's as if it gave me some structure. It's as if I needed someone else's eyes to look at myself.

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

Given the amount of work and time my mum devoted to my sister, it left me a lot of time to play on my own. I mean, I played with kids in the street all the time, too - I definitely wasn't denied a childhood. But I do wonder whether, in a sense, acting was my way of getting noticed.

When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.

Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

A bedrock of insecurity made me want to impress and want to be the center of attention.

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

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.

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.

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That's why they go into acting!

It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

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

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.

I was the attention-seeking child in class who needed everyone to look at meee.

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.