Quotes About Validation

It's one thing to work, but it's another thing to work on a show where people stop you all the time to say nice things.

I search my name on Twitter because I don't want to miss the compliments, and I favorite the nice things people say about me so they know I saw it. People are more positive than they are negative, and I try not to harp on the negative.

When I was growing up, I got a lot of, 'Oh, well, she bought the nicest horse, so of course she's going to win.' And I dealt with a lot of that.

I would go to open-mic nights and realize that I was not near as bad as half the people.

I think even if you do five films, some people would be like 'yeah, no big deal.'

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

I have my detractors, no doubt about it. I look at it as a compliment.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.'

I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.

When Americans, who have no idea who I am, laugh at my jokes, it's exactly the same if someone loves you even if you're not rich and famous.

It is much easier to imitate something else that you know is accepted and loved than it is to look inside and follow your own compass, because you have no idea if you'll be accepted, if you'll be right, if your ideas are good, if your way is a path to success.

If no one hears you, and no one listens to you, it doesn't matter how good you are because no one cares about you.

No one's going to remember you after football. No one cares about you after football.

I could see that I was losing weight and sometimes I'd see a few good comments and that spiralled me to be like: 'This is how I need to stay.' No one cares whether your performance was good, or if you sounded great.

At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'.

Having you in my life is so comforting, because it's like you feel and say all the same things I always did, but hearing you say them somehow confirms them for me, the way it's impossible to feel the same pleasure from running your own fingers through your own hair. What I'm trying to say is, you just can't tickle yourself.

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something. It's our inalienable right, as citizens of the twenty-first century. If Christina Aguilera or Britney or some American Idol jerk can be something, then why can't I? Where's mine, huh?

And she liked me. She liked me . She liked me. She liked me. Or at least, I think she did. I think she did. Etc.

Problema della mia generazione è che ci sentiamo tutti dei geni del cazzo. Far qualcosa per noi non è abbastanza, e neanche vendere qualcosa, o insegnare qualcosa o solamente combinare qualcosa: no, noi dobbiamo essere qualcosa.

Benim kuÅŸa??m?n sorunu ÅŸu: Hepimiz kendimizi birer dahi san?yoruz. Elimizle bir iÅŸ yapmak ya da bir ÅŸeyler satmak bizi tatmin etmiyor, biz ille de bir ÅŸeyler olmak istiyoruz. 21. Yüzy?lda yaÅŸayan insanlar olarak bunun en doÄŸal hakk?m?z olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyoruz. EÄŸer Christina Aguilera, Britney ya da daha bilmem kaç tane boÅŸ kafal? AmerÅŸkan pop y?ld?z? bir ÅŸey olabiliyorsa, biz niye olmayal?m?

Marcus tenía razón, por supuesto, pero tener razón no servía de nada si el resto del mundo estaba equivocado

We would all rather be loved for what we seem to be.