Quotes About Validation

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I knew I'd made it when I was sitting on the bus into Rochdale and there was an old man listening to one of my songs. It was fantastic.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.

The older you get, the lesser you are bothered by what others think.

As I get older and older, people like my work more and more.

I am the Olympic, World, Commonwealth, and European champion now, and I hope that's enough for people to accept that I am a half-decent British athlete.

We knew James Harden was good. You don't get named to All-Star games and win Olympic gold medals when you play like Darko Milicic.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

I couldn't care less what people have got to say as long as I have the backing from the people that matter - the gaffer, family, and my team-mates - and they know what I am like as a person on and off the pitch. That's all that matters.

I think, more than my husband, my mother-in-law gets excited and proud and what not whenever she sees me on-screen.

I feel at home in Shondaland. I feel a lot of things at Shondaland, but one of the things I feel that I haven't felt before is at home. I feel accepted for who I am and acknowledged for who I am. I feel like my ideas are embraced.

I know one thing; I'll never win an Academy Award.

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

I want people to see that I'm not a one-hit wonder.

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

A four-year-old should have no self-esteem, and for good reason. What could he have possibly accomplished in his life to justify esteeming oneself so highly?

The only time you will see me content is when everyone is calling me the greatest fighter of all time.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

The first time I was onstage, I felt like the audience was breathing with me. I don't know if I was good or not; I just knew I was having a ball, and for the first time, I felt I belonged somewhere.

It's definitely a high when you walk onstage and everybody starts applauding before you even say anything.

We put so much of ourselves onstage and we work so hard, that I never get tired of people telling me 'you're awesome.'