Quotes About Validation

I want to be in a place where they know I'm the best corner in the game and let me play and help the team get wins.

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?'

I made a couple of friends when I was a teenager who said I was funny. I used to send them very long texts; it was on a Nokia and always exceeding the text limit. But if I was making jokes in a group nobody was listening.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

I do quite often thank Frank Skinner because he agreed to do the very first series and that was a real stamp of approval.

I have to thank country radio for believing in me.

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'

People will run up to me with tears in their eyes and say, 'You're Ashley Graham?' and I match their enthusiasm and respond, 'Yes, I am!' and all they say is, 'Thank you so much.'

I like meeting people, cause they tell me I'm pretty, and I just have to say thank you a lot.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

You don't have to win 'Drag Race' to really win. And I am living proof of that, thank you Mary J. Blige!

Thank you to Australia for letting me know that I'm OK just the way that I am.

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

I'm happy and thankful that people are messing with the Dolla $ign.

For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.

When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today! Thank you!'

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.

When I did 'Think Like A Man', I would run into people who were acting like it was the first thing I'd ever done. I was at the premiere of 'Think Like A Man,' and people were coming up to me, like, 'Man, you're going to get work after this, bruh.'

The hardest thing for me was just getting crew chiefs and people to believe in me.