Quotes About Validation

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

Some people say I'm the best back in the NFL. That's what drives you: You want everyone saying there's no doubt who's the best.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

You always get that energy, you just want to be heard, to go out, do your thing and show people that we have just as much talent here as everywhere else.

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

At the end of the day, everyone wants to feel loved, appreciated and respected.

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

Every artists wants to be applauded

Everybody just wants to be loved, and nobody feels loved enough in high school.

What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood.