Quotes About Validation

unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.

I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It's like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.

Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong.

No matter how many times Dena had tried to tell her, Sookie had never understood what a great gal she was on her own. She had been one of the funniest and best-liked girls on campus, but she had never quite believed it. Everybody seemed to love Sookie but Sookie. A

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

wasn't her love and attention enough

To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself.

To be published = the socialization of the self. What a base necessity!

Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that's one of the rules of the game.

There is nothing like being pleased with your own work - and this is the best stage - before it is published and begins to be misunderstood.

Nobody with a good car needs to be justified

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.

Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

Only traumatised people want to be famous.

If people are honest, they'll admit that I do have a fan base.

This sounds weird, but when you have a male fan base, you pretty much know you are going to be okay until you're an old, crispy dude, because they're not buying your films because you're sexy.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

Even I get fan mail.

You're always going to have fans, and you're always going to have people that hate you. The people around me, they know who I am, and that's really all I care about.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

I find it very cool when girls hit on me because, for a long time, I was a fat kid. I became sexy at a later stage.

The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.