Quotes About Validation

Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you're in trouble.

I think, as long as you're secure with yourself and happy with yourself, it really doesn't matter what the world around you thinks.

People do recognize me sometimes. I occasionally get stopped and they have lovely things to say which is very overwhelming.

I'm not one of those kind of people that likes to beat up the past to validate the present. Certain people think that it's cool to make fun of MC Hammer. I'm like, 'Yeah, but you owned all of his records.'

I love audiences. They are my oxygen. I only breathe with audience. When I'm alone, I am normally a miserable you-know-what.

People told me that I was the best-looking girl in my college. But it was only after I won a beauty pageant in 2002 that I became confident.

There's a fullness that happens when someone is focussed on you. For me, if I'm being fully looked at and paid attention to and seen, I'm filled up by that.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard to hear that people think I'm not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I'm nuts.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

Fame doesn't matter; people approving of you doesn't matter. And if it does matter, you're in store for something very difficult and painful.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.

I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

Many years ago, I was a young and, dare I say it, very hot new comedian. Maybe even the hottest of all if the now defunct Perrier panel of judges were to be believed.

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

Now you don't know if somebody likes you or Milli Vanilli, the fame, the money. This makes it difficult. This makes you a little paranoid and afraid about people.

All my life, I have judged my worth by how much I have been loved by a man. It's so with a lot of women, that their self-esteem is measured by how much they are loved by a man, their partner, their boyfriend or maybe their husband. In my case, it may be because I grew up without my father.

If you don't find yourself attractive, how do you expect your partner to?

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

Fame is like being at a party and getting invited into the cool room even the VIPs can't get into, then the even cooler, more exclusive room after that. Eventually, you end up in a cubicle on your own, asking, 'Am I having fun?'

You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.