Quotes About Validation

If everybody loves you, you must be doing something wrong. It means there's no button being pushed... The only way that everybody loves you is toward the end of your career.

You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.

You can't satisfy everybody. If you do, you're probably doing something wrong.

There's nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated.

A lot of people thought I was fat, but I'm proving everybody wrong.

In all kinds of sports, you have to get the confidence going within before you can start proving people wrong or right.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

I think everybody is always selling me short, and then I always prove them wrong.

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

Being in Los Angeles is this brutal awakening, where I feel not good enough as soon as I walk into a room, and I'm wearing the wrong thing, or I don't have enough make up on. It's all about image.

Before Twitter, if comedians wrote what they had for lunch on a Post-it and put it through your letterbox you wouldn't find it acceptable - but now apparently it is on Twitter.

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.

Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this WWE muscle head.

I like having titles. I feel like when I walk out and I don't have a title, it's strange. Even in the independent scene before I got to WWE, I was a champion in most of the companies I wrestled for. Being a champion is just what I do.

I think when you come from a reality show, nobody really respects you from the movie industry or from the WWE industry.

Every time you get told you get a part, it's just wonderfully soothing and incredibly fantastic and healing. You have a bad day at school, you come home and get told you've got a part in something, and it's just like, 'Yeah, it's all worth it'.

It's really refreshing to get these types of moments when people can say, 'Yeah, you're one of the best.'

When one person says, 'Yeah, me, too,' it gives permission for others to open up.

The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.