Quotes About Validation

It feels as if I never get my just due.

I have cleared the eyeball test and still haven't gotten my just due. That drives me to become more and more successful because of the lack of everything they have been giving me.

I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.

They see a blooper here and there, and they just think, 'Oh, he's dumb.' I mean, what can I do? I can't 'at' everyone on Twitter and tell them I'm not dumb. Because that looks dumb.

I'm dying for people to let me be funny!

Earlier in my career I had so much to prove.

You've just got to earn my respect.

I'm looking to prove myself and earn that respect in the ring.

I feel I have to earn everybody's respect.

To some degree, I think playing yourself has to be earned.

The respect that I get is going to be earned. That's the way I look at it.

I haven't been given a lot of respect in the division. But you know what? I'm OK with earning it.

We live in a social media world where there are people who have perhaps done nothing big but are earning more than us, who are these people following them, making them stars? It is the audience.

It's good to be able to feel appreciated and to be able to know that your efforts and the impact in the sport meant something.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

Everybody asks me if I sing on this record. Even my mother asks me. I am a very proud person and this is embarrassing.

I've never been a person that was concerned about accolades or the media embracing me.

I'm not getting an Emmy.

I mean, autographs are so funny. I don't think it's good to encourage that sort of thing. Why do people want to have an autograph? What does it do for you?

I think every human being in the world appreciates being encouraged and acknowledged.

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.

I don't want anyone's endorsement. If the public likes my work, they will support me.

Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

I am not the type who'd enter the best schools just to prove myself.