Quotes About Validation

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

I was never going to be very cute. I always looked for the best people to play with and, 'cause, to make myself look better.

I always wanted my daddy to be proud.

People have said I have brain damage, but I've passed all of my physicals, all of my medicals. They've checked my head so many times it's crazy.

I think, when I was younger, I'd be crippled sometimes by what others thought or how others would do better. It's been a long journey, and having a lack of confidence is really damaging in this industry.

Social media can be incredibly damaging for impressionable people.

When women come up to me like, 'I am a freaking senator,' or, 'I'm a doctor,' it's like, 'Damn, y'all like me? I look up to y'all!'

I don't give a damn about MVP.

I play this game to be the best, and it doesn't matter what other people say, I think I'm pretty damn good.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

I've never been critically acclaimed. I've never been nominated for no Grammy. I've never been on no magazine cover. It's almost taboo to say I'm actually good.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing - and speaks to an existential neediness typically reserved for failed actresses and phenomenally successful rappers.

With or without the idol tag, I believe I will be recognized for what I have done.

What I wanted to make sure of is that I wasn't just tagged as a Viner.

Don't take social media seriously. Don't buy into the hype.

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.

There are much more important things than a man going to the gym. Of course they have to take care of themselves on a certain level, but it's not essential. I think men do it more to impress other men.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

People said: 'You're too big to play football,' but I kept playing and it just happened that people have caught on to me and taken to me. The nicest thing I get from it is that I can be myself and people seem to like it.

I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility.

I feel like when you call me inspirational, it takes away from the success that I've actually had. Would you say that to any other comic that just ripped the mic for an hour?

For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?

It typically takes multiple iterations and pivots to find product/market fit - the match between what you're building and who will buy it.