Quotes About Validation

My general feeling about award shows that I've been to in the past was always that when you win, it's a great time. What a joy. You're celebrating there. And when you lose, the whole thing feels very stupid and why does anyone care about any of this. This is boring. I want to go home.

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

People care about what I have to say now, and they want to hear it, and that's one of the greatest gifts you can be given.

I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and whenever I tell people I'm Greek, they don't believe me.

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

I've had to wean myself away to make sure that any choices I make are grounded in myself rather than the seeking of approval.

You always have groups that want to come after the big bad developer. They don't want to see anything done. Don't disturb a blade of grass; just freeze the world in time. It validates them.

Being pretty was always a very big thing growing up.

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

If the song makes it and people like it, then I guess that's all that matters, really.

You go from nobody looking at you to people taking second looks. I remember really loving it - and then feeling so guilty for loving it. Like, 'That's gross, Kristen.' Also, telling myself it could go away at any moment, and I'd be so sad.

I've got two parents, I don't ride around with guns, and I've never put my hands on a woman. But the only team that believed me was the Cardinals.

If you are in a gym class with other women, and even if you are in shape, you feel like, 'Do they think my legs are not right?' Since you are supposed to be the perfect one, they look for the defects. It's such an embarrassment.

Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.

I kind of enjoyed having people complain that I wasn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than I think I'll like being in it.

Part of me feels it's better we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

People always talk about first-ballot Hall of Famer and all that stuff, but it doesn't really make a difference. Once you get in there, you're a Hall of Famer. It doesn't matter if you get in on the first, second or third ballot. It's the same thing.

Man, to make the Hall would be incredible. I'd cry for, like, five weeks straight.

I am in my own hall of fame, that's all that matters.

We never even thought about a Hall of Fame. We never even thought about a gold record, tell you the truth.

I don't think the Hall of Fame has any credibility unless I'm in it.

Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don't have the experience of being listened to by their parents.