Quotes About Validation

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

I would say that one of the hardest things for an athlete, and really anybody of any profession, is that we create our identity in what we do.

Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.

Every human being can relate to wanting their thoughts and their feelings to be accepted and rewarded and validated. So in that way, a stand-up is similar to almost any profession. It's very simply just someone who wants to be heard and live authentically and express themselves.

People say that when you become famous you're growth is kind of stunted. That kind of makes sense because you are around people who are just agreeing with you and leading you into different places and you don't really make many choices for yourself.

I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.

You sort of feel when you are given an award, you feel like, well then you have got to do something to deserve having been given the award. It worked differently with me cause I didn't feel that I had done enough.

The fact that designers like Lagerfeld, Gaultier, Galliano and Dior could believe in Alek made me believe in myself, too.

My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

I'm forever grateful to have had the opportunity to prove myself to my dad. After I took over the diner, the look in my father's eyes went from disappointment to respect.

I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.

When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.

A lot of people want to discredit me.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

You might be an elite-level athlete in the room, but if no one gets to see you display your craft it doesn't matter.

I want to be the most expensive full-back ever because when you reach that it shows that you are one of the best full-back of the world.

What the manager says is what's important to me. What experts say doesn't interest me and never will. I know what I can do. I've not been playing at the top level for nothing. I've been successful.

I can't pick up the phone to everybody that doubts me and explain myself.

I don't have to explain anything to trans women. Trans women know exactly what's going on.

Exposure is this thing people think they want but at the end of day it doesn't matter.