Quotes About Validation

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself.

My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I don't care if the review is good, because that can be as dangerous as when it's bad. It's less demoralizing, but it can be just as confusing.

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

You are never too old for applause. What's satisfying is that I'm being appreciated for what I was trained for.

It's just really cool to see high profile trainers, athletes, and celebs using my products and loving them.

I get a stack of scripts, like, once a month, and most of the time, you find these placeholder girls that are there to provide a bounce for the male character. So we know he's funny because she's serious and she's mad at him. We know he's strong because she needs saving. So really, her job is to validate this personality trait of our hero or male.

Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.

One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason to exist in the world?' And you're reassured when you get little confirmations that people are pleased it did exist - whether they buy a ticket, whether it gets good reviews, whether it transfers.

I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no quantifiable history of me existing as a transwoman. Credit and background checks automatically assumed I was committing fraud.

I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.

You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well,' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.

Will #metoo translate into #webelieveyou? #Wecanonlyhope.

As much as I really love the praise and affection I get when my work is appreciated, it doesn't translate to money in the bank.

The point in me playing with Prince was to let a lot of people know that I can play trap. I don't think people know that.

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

Not only has volume been ratcheted up but expectations have, too. Quiet success--painting a picture, writing a poem, writing an algorithm--is all well and good, but if you haven't become famous doing it, then did it really matter?

If you are rejected by someone who doesn't really know you, then you are not being rejected for who you are. You are only being rejected for who that person thinks you are.

Too much self-esteem, thought Simon: the real curse of our age.

Anyone who cares more about pleasing other people than about their own happiness—anyone who believes, deep down, that everyone else matters more than they do—learns fluent dishonesty at a young age.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Prestige is a distorting force that makes you want to like something that you really do not.

It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but that they want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.