Quotes About Validation

When I was in the indies, the guys would be like, 'Ugh, a women's match. I'm not gonna watch that.' And to come back here, at every single Live Event to have a guy come up to you and say, 'That was amazing,' I feel so accomplished.

I don't feel like material things validate me in any way.

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

Sometimes you feel like the only resource you have is your body or your looks.

I know I was successful, I was liked and loved and respected; so I was happy with that.

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

It's been hard being on the Internet and not being respected by people in Hollywood.

I just want to be respected.

That's the most important thing because you want to be respected. When you see those best players in the league giving you their respect, that's what you want. At the end of the day, that really, really matters to me.

I can only do what I do, and if people respond to it, great, and if they don't, that's what that is.

I am very happy for the kind of response I am getting for my work, but there was a lot of hard work that has gone into it.

I return to the stage time and again to see if I am worth anything.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

If you make a good show, you tend to get good reviews. I don't believe it is as arbitrary as some people tend to think, which artists do to protect themselves against bad reviews.

I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.

If you meet someone on the street that likes something that you did or likes the way you brought this character to life, that's really rewarding. That's really cool.

It's very rewarding to know that people respect what you do.

I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.

It's really great if people actually want to see something that you've made and you've put a lot of effort into. And that doesn't always happen, and there's not always a rhyme or reason.

I think people saw me as someone who was real, and not somebody subject to the criticism and ridicule given to my profession.