Quotes About Validation

Right from school, I got mockery for the way I look. I took it to heart early on. I admit there were times when I doubted myself.

I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.

Our moms accuse us of selling out all the time, so we're still trying to cope with that. They claim to be true fans, like they've been there from the beginning, and they think that we've kind of, like, changed as humans.

Acceptance at home is fundamental, yes, but frankly, it's just not enough. Trans youth, like most young people, spend the majority of their time at school. If you spent Monday to Friday from 8 to 3 being told that you weren't okay, that you were wrong, how are you meant to think otherwise?

Dance Monkey' showed me that I'm good enough.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

Whenever someone comes up to me saying, 'I saw you in 'Carlos' and then I saw the rest of your movies,' for me, it's an expression that we might be doing something well. So my life hasn't changed that much. I just try not to go to very crowded places if I'm not in the mood.

When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.

Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

I'd be a liar if I said I didn't care what people think, but I would rather have less people who like or approve of me for who I really am than a bunch more people who like or approve me for what I'm not.

You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.

There are always more people to prove wrong.

I would like more people to think good things about me, but if they never do, they never do.

Having more people accepting what you're doing - that's the kind of limelight we really cherish.

'You're beautiful' was the compliment I craved so much. I didn't care if people called me smart or innovative - it was the number-one compliment I gave out to other women hoping it was given back to me. I heard people saying it to my best friends. It was the one I wanted to hear more than anything else.

As a woman, it's nice to hear people at the stage door say, 'I didn't even know! She's a woman, and that's the most amazing thing'.

At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.

My whole thing was being wanted and being accepted by a ball club. That was the most important thing to me.

When I look back, I think I must have been hugely motivated. I would have loved for somebody to say, 'You go for it!' I just didn't have that.

There's always people that say stuff about you. I just want to go out there and prove them wrong, and that's what motivates you.

There will always be people who think that money and benefits and even just having a job should be thanks enough. There are also those that think they do a great job without anyone having to thank them. But study after study has shown that no one is immune from the motivating effects of acknowledgement and thanks.

It's very motivating, very aspiring to have the knowledge of me being able to be successful so young and have players go out of their way to talk about me.

No matter how much I make or what I get, I still think that I gotta go out there and prove something. That's going to be my mentality and that's my motivation.