Quotes About Validation

I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield.

I was always in my mind that for the top-six clubs in England my name was not big enough.

Some people see me as someone who makes other people look bad... I often get a feeling most people don't know who I am, or have a clue, and I live with that. I don't try to prove anything by talking.

When you hear coaches say your son is good, sometimes you think they are just saying it because it's you.

I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

I think everyone can have their own opinion. I think that all that matters is how I feel and my opinion, my coaches, and the people around me, like my family.

I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.

I have always been proud and happy to wear France's colours. I have always been respectful of the team. But I need people to prove they really want me to play.

One thing a comedian does, when you step on the stage, you're selling yourself, and certainly I don't think the whole world can love you. But if you can get the majority on your side, you're really in business.

It's embarrassing to say you want to be a comedian. Admitting that you want attention and you think you're such a laugh.

I would loved to be called an actor, and not comedian.

Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the 'Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway.'

I'm a comedian because I want people to like me. That's really why all comedians are comedians.

Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish.

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.

I think you've got to be careful with social media. You can get addicted to the buzz of people liking and commenting. It's exhausting.

I'm not a player who needs telling every day in training 'you're brilliant, you're this, you're that'... but it's always nice to hear comments from the manager and people around that you're doing well.

I feel complete when I look at my phone and see thousands of likes and comments.

I get really negative comments all the time, but the comments that really bother me are the ones that question my character.