Quotes About Validation

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation.

When you're in front of an audience, you know if it didn't work. I get very nervous and have a fear of failure that is much more profound than in the podcast world.

Why does Louis CK get named Comedy Person of the Year? I should be named Comedy Person of the Year just so I can parlay it into another few weeks of road work.

It's really cool going into a casting room and having them know who you are and the work that you've done.

Never ask people about your work.

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

When Oprah Winfrey wears something, it works out, too. But if someone's having "a moment," that always helps.

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.

When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

I'm always doubting my work, even when people are kind enough to say good things. I still have a hard time believing I've written some books, let alone that they've actually done pretty well.

... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.

I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

I check fashion magazines when I'm published in them to make sure that my work looks good, and then I kind of put it aside.

After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?