Quotes About Validation

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you're doing good. I think about that every day.

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

A lot of people don't believe in what they are doing. They just want the crowd to scream for them.

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?

No-one wants to feel like they're constantly auditioning for a place in your life.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"

I was always told that if people don't want a picture with you, or they don't want an autograph from you, that doesn't mean you're not doing anything good.

Why didn't you make me good enough...so you could have loved me?

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

I don't think I'd complain if I were overrated.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

a man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come—not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul.