Quotes About Validation

Some of the biggest compliments you can get are from people who have played the game at the highest level.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.

My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.

Am I trying to win the approval of human beings or God? If I were still trying to please people I would not be a servant of Christ.

You can't please people who don't really know you and, you know, I do think that one of the things I do want to do is please the people who matter to me and please the people that do know me.

When I was young, I just tried to please everybody.

You don't want to let people down, and that's so hard because you're never going to please everybody. There's always going to be someone that's a naysayer.

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

I get love from fans in a big enough dosage that it acts as a shield, and I would not sacrifice that love in order to please the industry.

I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.

There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.

We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly.

I can't bear not to be liked, and I've always been a people pleaser.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

I just want to be agreeable; I want to be a pleaser. And that's all I want to do. I want to please the fans or the haters. One or the other.