Quotes About Validation

I used to try to get revenge on the critics, but now I realize I've already won, and it doesn't matter what people say.

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?'

My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.

After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.'

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

When you know part of the industry thinks of you as a one-hit wonder, that's painful.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

I always wondered, like, you know how you go to the family barbecue, and your uncle is that funny guy that you laugh at because he's family? That's how I felt with 'Fighter and the Kid.' People would laugh at my stuff, but it was always tough for me to tell. I just needed to see if there was something going on.

You go to a Japanese restaurant and have a wonderful dish, and the thing to do is take a picture with your phone, put it on Facebook, and see how many likes you get. If you don't share your experiences, they don't become part of the data processing system, and they have no meaning.

A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Seeing all the people smiling and laughing and clapping for me... it's such a wonderful feeling.

When I wrote 'Goose' I gave my assistant my password, she locked me out of Twitter, and I wrote the book in five weeks. Sometimes I fantasise about how wonderful life would be if I went offline, but I can't - because I really need affection and adoration from strangers!

I've had people only tell me wonderful things about how well I've brought up my children, and how amazing my kids have turned out.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.

I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'

With so much of what I write, I'm just constantly wondering out loud, 'Do other people feel this way?'

You can't listen to the whole world tell you you're crazy, without wondering, 'Am I crazy?'