Quotes About Validation

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

Most people have never been listened to, and they've never been asked questions that they want to be asked.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

I'm sure there's a long list of one-time all-stars, and I don't want to be on it.

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing.

Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.'

I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn't love myself enough. But now I realize that when you're an artist, you're making the music that's in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason.

I want people to love me for me.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

It's not just the winning I like, it's the affection you get for winning. It's a lovely feeling, that.

I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.

Anybody who tells you they don't care about being liked is lying.

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

When you play a show and you see people singing your lyrics back to, you feel as if they do know you.

When somebody tells me, 'The Source magazine had you in the Top 5 emcees,' I'm like, 'Okay, that's cool.' The other four may not be who I consider dope emcees.

My mum loves me being in magazines.

It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.

Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not.

It's important to feel wanted by your manager.

As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.

What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.

Nobody ever gets praised for the right reasons.