Quotes About Validation

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.

In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.

We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

People don't want advice...only corroboration.

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

Just because you like me doesn't make me what you want or need.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.