Quotes About Approval-seeking

Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

I can't bear not to be liked, and I've always been a people pleaser.

When approval-seeking is the guiding principle of life, it's virtually impossible to achieve a loving relationship with another human being.

People-pleasing is a form of assholery,' which

I hate when people do that desperate act just for attention.

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