Quotes About Validation

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.

It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me.

Prior to 'The Goldbergs,' I rarely got good reviews on anything I've done.

There are always going to be people who are against you or don't rate you.

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

Getting to a 1 rating in households is a sign that we're building momentum. It gives us bragging rights.

I think ratings are something that shouldn't bother you. At the end of it, you should be happy with what you are doing.

I don't know if people say ratings don't matter... they sure as Hell matter. Like, you want to win.

You've got to not care about what people think. You learn that as an actor. If you get a bad review, will you be destroyed by it? Or will you think you're God's gift when you get a rave review?

I like to live life in a way that I understand, it's satisfying. I understand you have to reach a mark where everyone likes you but in reality they don't like you, they like your work.

The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

It's very validating to have people who do what you do react to a song in a cool way.

Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.

The best way to test whether you are saying the truth or not - if you say something and people don't react then it's not the real truth. But if people start reacting then what you are saying has got an element of truth.

I get commercial acclaim because of critical acclaim and it is a chain reaction.

The audience's reaction is the most rewarding thing for an actor, especially me.

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

I already don't read reviews, I don't seek them out. Sometimes my family will tell me if there's a nice one.

I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write for yourself, then why don't you just keep it under the bed,' so I definitely write for other people.