Quotes About Validation

For me, being appreciated by the audience is the most important thing, everything else is secondary.

I know I'm funny, and I like to be in front of people, and the fact that I'm good at that. It's the one thing that gave me self-esteem.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

The only thing better than proving someone right, is proving somebody wrong.

The problem with people is that no matter how good you are at what you do, it's never enough for them. There will always be someone to point out some flaw. Someone will always find something lacking in you.

The problem with ratings is that you can give yourself a million reasons why they are what they are.

The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.

Academic Marxists were never going to be convinced that anything that happened in the real world could invalidate their belief system. Utopians of the Right, libertarians are just as convinced that their ideas have yet to be tried and that they would work beautifully if we could only just have a do-over of human history.

The thing I believe is we are good if our peers think we're great. But we are great if the real world thinks we're good. And there's a huge difference.

Obviously, you have to find the confidence within yourself to pursue your ideas, but there's nothing wrong with having people around you who are going to say, 'I think that's a great idea,' or, 'I think you're doing the right thing.'

I panicked in my 20s and 30s about whether I was doing the right thing. I was an excited puppy, wanting to please people and feeling guilty that I'd had a privileged education and an acting career.

As an artist, you're very sensitive about your art. And you feel like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Am I making the right music?'

Martin O'Neill let me go and he obviously felt that was the right thing at the time. But you go on and want to prove people wrong.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

My goal was always to sell out theaters. When it happens you never expect it to be like it is, but you know it feels right.

I wanted to get into theatre as I feel people take you more seriously than as a film actress.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

I hate bad reviews, so yeah, every now and then I think, 'Boy I hope everybody really likes this and thinks this theme is good.' You can't help but do that. I think we all are, or at least I am, reduced to a schoolboy seeking approval.

All she wanted was to matter. To be more than an opportunity. That's all.

But the thing about being a disaster in middle school is that the shame of it never fully goes away. Even after your braces are off and your hair is exactly the way girls wear it on Tumblr, underneath it all, you're still just as unsure whether someone actually likes you, or is only talking to you so they can laugh about it afterward.

And in this way was born the concept, central to all mathematics and science, of proof.

I don't get no respect. When I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up.

I don't get no respect. When I was born, the doctor smacked my mother.