Quotes About Validation

If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I'd do it, but it really means very little to me. We're mavericks over here, what can we say?

When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.

I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.

I've earned every stripe that I've gotten. I've earned every playing time.

Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.

I've earned my stripes; I don't need to prove myself to anyone.

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

I've been striving for attention my whole life. Now I have it.

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

In the past, I've been a bit diffident about my own albums, almost excusing them for some reason, even though deep down I felt strongly about them.

If my mum or my wife says that something isn't funny, I know I've struck gold.

I had been introduced to rapping in a way where women and people did it, it was structured. It had this very very political structure to it and if you didn't follow the structure, you weren't considered validated or real and that just gave me anxiety.

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

People will always have their opinions; I've come to learn whose matter.

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.