Quotes About Validation

The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you're great no matter how big an idiot you are.

It gets old, all of it. People putting a lot of hopes and dreams on you. Telling you they put money on you, and 'you're my kid's idol.'

I knew people liked me on 'American Idol,' but I didn't think they'd care to come see me sing at my own show.

I feel like I had to prove myself a lot because people doubt you. If someone does doubt me it does ignite a bit of a fire.

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

I quite like that people tend not to know my name. I remember being at the Cannes film festival for 'All or Nothing.' I looked very different in the film - I had a little greasy bob and no makeup. I went to a dinner after the screening, and everyone completely ignored me. I got a real buzz out of that.

When 'Sports Illustrated' came out with their 50 most fashionable people in sport, that fact that I wasn't on that list is a travesty.

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.

Fashion can be extremely fickle so you need to work on your image, self-worth and confidence.

I had a very poor image of myself because I believed too much of the people around me when I was very young.

The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image.

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.

I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.

Coming from an immigrant background, where a lot of parents don't want their kids to be comedians, success was just showing my mom that I could make a living. I was like, if I can get my mom off my back, that was my success.

When someone is complimenting you, they are sharing how your actions or behaviors impacted them. They are not asking if you agree.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

Guys don't get as many physical compliments as women do. Tell him his CrossFit habit is paying off. He'll work double time to impress you.

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

Even the pre-schoolers are like, 'I watch you on The Jonas Brothers.' And my own kids. I have been in the greatest movies, even some for kids, and they were never impressed until I did 'Jonas L.A.'

People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.

I always want to prove that I've improved.

It might be easy to identify me as so-and-so's son, especially to begin with, but you only get that one first film, after which you have to prove yourself and keep improving.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one's success and it is best to not get carried away by it.