Quotes About Validation

I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

There's so many people that dislike you all the time, so when somebody loves anything that you do, you go 'Yes! Finally!' Even if it means the dyn-o-mite thing.

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

I unfortunately don't have a stage name, I don't have a celebrity that I can hide behind, so every time I show my ID at an airport person or get carded at a bar, it's always interesting.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong!

All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough.

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

Love me, and tell me so sometimes.

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel they have not said enough.