Quotes About Validation

Just to show them that I wasn't a lot of hot air I'd say names to them – like "Bellow" and "Malamud" and "Albee" – you know, so they'd begin to trust me.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don`t try to be right.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

He wasn't sure how it had come about, but her good opinion meant a great deal to him. Of course, he needed her approval in his much-neglected suit of Edwina, but there was more to it than that. She'd insulted him, she'd nearly dunked him in The Serpentine, she'd humiliated him at Pall Mall, and yet he craved her good opinion.

She didn't want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point.

É fácil dizer que não nos importamos com a opinião dos outros quando elas nos são sempre favoráveis

That seemed to cover a lot of life, he'd come to realize. Proving something right wasn't the same as proving the opposite wrong.

Sometimes it is a way of controlling others, including family members, because you don't know how to connect to them in any other way. Money can also serve as a scorecard to indicate how well you are doing, the impact you are having, if you are winning.

Fortunately, I got critic and audience acceptance much earlier than industry acceptance.

Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

Initially, it was my dream to get into RADA. Then I got in. So it became my dream to show them I wasn't half bad at acting.

If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.

My creative energy and inputs have always been respected.

We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'

Everyone has this insatiable need to share things with everyone. I think people want to be seen.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.

Actors are such an insecure breed.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.