"it's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself"

From the April 2012 Vanity Fair, an interview with Julia Roberts and Mike Nichols:

V.F.:  Metamorphosis, transformation: that's what holds us, I think, in every story.

Mike: To become something better, to be less unhappy.  But it's mostly a fantasy.  It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe.  I mean, the people I know who like themselves—I don't want to see them.

V.F.: They're insufferable.

Julia:  Worse than insufferable. They're boring.

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