Quotes About Validation

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah

At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.

There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official.

I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field.

Oh, I love critics. Because they love me. It's not a joke. They care.

You hope that some day a part will come along and you can do your stuff and people will go, 'oh that's good.' I just got very lucky.

When you're a fan of someone, and they know your name, you're like, 'Oh my God!'

I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

I'm just getting my sea legs. The first time you make them laugh, you're like, 'Oh my God - that just happened.' Then you're like, 'I made them laugh. I've earned this.'

If I had a dollar for every guy that came up to me to say, 'I'm not a scrub,' oh my God, I'd have a billion dollars.

It definitely feels different to perform to people who know your music. Because people's feedback is not just, 'Oh my God, that was amazing. Who are you?'

If you make the All-Star team and you get the label next your name, for whatever reason, people will think, 'Oh, yeah, he's good now.' But if you don't have it, it's, 'Well, he's never made it, he's never done anything, so why would you think he's any better than this guy or the next guy.'

When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.

I just want people to know it's OK to really feel their feelings.

It's very hard to be OK with who you are and not care what other people think of you. Believe me, I know.

And I'm OK being judged as an actor.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

I'm not a sexy person. I'm OK with it. I've never been the sexy girl. Whenever I've had a boyfriend, he's always been like, 'Oh, you're cute.'

It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put yourself down to get other people to tell you you're good, that annoys me. Have confidence!

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

For me, art is like a big support group, where you go and meet people who think the same way, and you go, 'Okay, I'm not nuts.'

I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's funny, it's too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it's like, 'Okay. That's your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that's good.' Hopefully it balances out.

As a filmmaker, you put the film out there, and you just want it to be okay. You don't want to let people down; you don't want to embarrass yourself.