Quotes About Validation

In her rare moments of desperation, she wanted a man to look at her like she meant the world to him, and failing that, she would settle for someone who thought she was beautiful and told her

It is unjust, it is so unjust, was her thought. I have never been recognized as myself.

You just want tae fuck up on drugs so that everyone'll think how deep and fucking complex you are. It's pathetic, and fucking boring.

What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.

He...breathed in heavy gulps of air to prove to himself that he was three-dimensional.

I hope I am not of subnormal intelligence

No se amaba a sí mismo y tal vez por eso pensaba que no merecía el amor de los demás.

You are an exceptional man, and it's not just my senility speaking, half the country would agree with me, and the other half doesn't count.

I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one: Get past the product-market fit; figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem.

I literally have zero friends. So I like people to adore me, but I never had a talent that made people adore me.

I made myself into what I thought was a big-time player, and nobody in L.A. seemed to care or believe I was any good. When I started hearing I wouldn't play in college, I would just let it simmer inside me and then be like, 'Okay. That's what you think? Okay.' The number zero was the only way I could express that.

I think you don't have to be size zero to prove yourself... to connect with the audience.

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.'

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.