Quotes About Validation

When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

I've had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing career you're going to have people say very nice things and some not-so-nice things, and if at all possible you should try to ignore both.

I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice.

Once you identify the intrinsically motivated people, you realize that fancy degrees can actually be a negative - that some of the people who have them are more focused on how others perceive them.

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

At age 12, I was on 'Guiding Light,' and I wanted to be accepted by these adults I was working with. I started with the Eat Right for Your Type diet. A friend who was a little older was doing it. I have a perfectionist personality, so I wanted to do the best job I could. I was not eating anything it said not to.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

As a performer, we look for applause.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

When I was on the X-Factor, I found that I grew a lot as a performer. I knew I could sing but I didn't believe in myself enough... I needed to hear that I was good.

As a performer, I'm happy if one person gets to see the work I do, but to have lots of people see it and appreciate it, it feels good.

When you first start out in stand-up and, probably, as any performer, you enjoy the attention so much, and even though that hasn't died down on stage, it certainly has satiated whatever was in me that was needing that much attention. When I'm off stage, it's not something that I really need.

It's really important to prove yourself as a performer and as an actor.

We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure.

I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.

I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.

When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you're performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who's dependent on other people's approval.

We're all performing for someone.

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.