Quotes About Validation

I just want to say that I'm, like, living for myself, because I was onstage at Radio City Music Hall with Christina Aguilera - and my name was on the screen. It was a big moment!

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

After all those years in the business, I asked myself, 'Am I really any good? Or am I only good because I'm with good people - a Murray Pearlstein, a Ralph Lauren?

All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that goes back to Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston - take your pick.

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.

I just wanted to feel sexy and get male attention and get guys and do that whole experience because I didn't really have that before. And so when I started to get it, I just took it and ran with it.

We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.

I don't want to be followed by random men I don't know. It can also be hard to deal with other kids who are jealous or mean. I can't post a picture on Instagram without being criticized.

As a rookie you sort of don't really know if you're good enough, and then you start listening to a bunch of random things or just out looking for a bunch of random things that don't help.

When a team like Rangers is interested in you, it's something you have to look at and you know you're doing something right.

We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me.

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

I am the best in the world, and all these guys are fighting me to gain credit.

I feel that I've worked so hard to gain the respect of the fans and my co-workers.

It's hard to gain respect in fashion, especially if you're coming from social media, so it's been challenging at times.

I think as competitors, that's why we get into this, to gain respect from the guys who have played the game, and you walk away and they say, 'He was a tough cover - that dude was nice.'

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

I'm just trying to enjoy the fact that I have gained some respect from some people whom I respect.

What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.