Quotes About Validation

A lot of my life is just - a lot of my life I've just felt like a piece of meat. No one actually really cares, they only care if you're playing.

It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.

It's just being me, man... If you get caught up in people saying you're good and people saying this or that, good or bad, it can kind of wear on you. Or it'll make you feel like you're better than what you are.

I think, even in society, people get so caught up in how they look. I think I let that go, and I've learnt to not care.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.

Love Island' is for people who aren't celebrities, who've done nothing in their life and are trying to be someone and get something to be famous.

Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'

I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then you'll be happy.

My mother saw the magazine, and she was like, 'You made it.' I've been on Showtime and Comedy Central, but none of that matters - all that matter is that she sees me in 'People!'

For people who have done comedy after a certain point in time, I think there's a base level of, 'O.K., I think I'm decently funny.' But unless you just have some massive ego, I really think you're still fighting against that.

I'll listen to certain things that I made back then, and I'm like, 'I wish I could have done this, I would've done that'. When you start out making music, you just want to make something that people will like.

There is no bigger certificate than audience appreciation.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

I don't want to have an asterisk next to my accomplishments for the rest of my life. I don't want everybody to say, 'interim champ' every time someone says Dustin was the champion.

There are world champions out there that no one has heard of. I don't want to be one of those guys.

I don't necessarily get rubs from championships, I'd like to feel the championship gets a rub off of me.

Guys are more apt to test me than they are to test a Charles Barkley. I think I have to go out and prove myself all the time, and that's fine, because I've had to prove myself my whole life.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

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