Quotes About Validation

I've been trying to prove myself since I picked up this brown ball at the age of 7.

It's human nature - we want to be chosen, we want to be picked and when there's this thing that isn't choosing you, that can affect your self-confidence and your self-worth.

In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.

The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.

I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.

I did a CNN pilot but they decided I wasn't Anthony Bourdain.

I feel like network didn't want me. I was doing all these pilots, and it never worked out. I was like, network doesn't like me. I'm going to go to cable where I'm appreciated. Then it was funny; I think I had to go to cable for network to appreciate me.

To sit next to Walter Hill, and to be able to exchange ideas back and forth, and for him to be able to tell you that he likes what you're doing - I don't know. I kind of pinch myself.

My mentality has always been focused around the mindset that you have to earn everything. So even if you get told that you're going to play, I take that with a pinch of salt and respect all the comments, but for me, I have to earn my place.

What I've learned is Twitter is only a bubble - take it with a pinch of salt.

It's hard to pinpoint a 'moment' that validated years of work.

I feel great when people say good things about me. But what's important is that I have to show it on the pitch.

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

If you are seeking fame without the requisite talent, you might wander.

Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn't mean you're a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

I don't wanna be liked just because I'm pretty.

I do have esteem issues when it comes to reading and writing. I always feel kind of self-conscious about letting people read something that I wrote, because the last thing I wanna hear is, 'You spelled everything wrong.'