Quotes About Validation

You don't have to be scared of what other people are thinking. You don't need to feel judged by other people.

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.

There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am I bad, am I being judged, who likes me, who doesn't like me...'

When I was younger, I had a fear of being judged as a footballer, and my worst fear was feeling like I didn't belong at the level of football I was playing.

I know first-hand what it's like to be judged and to have someone criticise your creativity, your hard work and your art.

Throughout a competitive career, you can certainly lose yourself trying to please the judges.

It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us.

Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

If you believe in yourself, somebody will find you that believes in you just as much, if not more.

Just as much as you need the people who love you, you need the people who doubt you - to prove them wrong.

If you were to find all the people I've worked with and ask them what they think of me, they're all just going to say, 'Oh, wonderful', and it'll just be a lot of blah.

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

There are some athletes who I feel like are just looking for likes, and then there are people who are just real.

Just looking down the bench and when you're on the court, you start to realize, 'I'm an All-Star.'

I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.

I think in the world of Internet trolls, people can shake your confidence really easily, with just one comment. As long as you can stand behind your work, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks!

Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!

My whole career has been a struggle for dignity and justification, to prove that I'd made the right decision to be an actor in the first place.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

There will be people who don't like you or aren't convinced. I'd rather let my work talk than justify in words.

I have to justify my job every day.

You don't need to ever justify the way you feel.