Quotes About Validation

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I'm a neurotic attention-seeker.

When people are so nice about you, you get emotional and cry. But we never take it for granted.

I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.

I showed my nana, who lives in Delray, my writeup in the 'New York Times,' and she said, 'When will you be in the 'Sun Sentinel?'

For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.

If who you were was entirely based upon the position you were in or the headlines you got in the newspaper, or you had essentially subcontracted out your self-worth to the judgments of others, then you're going to be like tumbleweed. You're going to be blown.

It feels amazing to know that the whole country thought my role in 'Newton' was one of my best, and to win the Special Mention Award at the highest film award in India is just exhilarating.

I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.

I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

It's good to know people think I'm a nice guy.

When you're very famous, very young, there's that little thing of, 'Are they being nice to me because they think I'm a nice person? Or is it because they want to tell their friends 'Guess who I was with last night?'

Obviously, getting a number in the charts is a nice thing but the cherry on the cake rather than the main cake.

What other people think of me isn't any of my business but it's nice when people say nice things.

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.

I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I've learned that that stuff isn't real, and it doesn't exist unless you look at it.

I appreciate the few people who say nice things about me and say, 'Gee, you were right about this,' or, 'You were right about that.' But frankly, I spend my time looking ahead. I've got 23 grandkids, and I'm concerned about what their world is going to be like.

It's always nice when someone you don't know comes up to you and says a couple nice things about your work. It's always a pleasure.

It's always nice to hear nice things, but I don't suddenly go out and think I'm the best thing since sliced bread.

People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!'

When people you don't know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don't know say bad things about you, you can't attach that same meaning.