Quotes About Validation

I am the kind of person who does want very badly to be liked. I'm a right-miserable little show off.

How long can you bank on your body and your face to help you get roles in films? At the end of the day, anyone who wants to be known as an actor wants to be appreciated for his/her work.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

You're not going to get every part, so you can't base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job.

Coming out of college, you never really know how good you are, you've never played for money, you've put all your eggs in one basket and your whole life revolves around it. For a while, I didn't think I was going to be good enough.

I've spent too much of my life being made to feel like there's something wrong with me. And no matter how much support I felt as a basketball player at Baylor, it still doesn't erase all the pain I felt there.

There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things.

The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

There's a lot of people that think I'm a terrible basketball player, so it's just gonna piss me off. And if it's people who think I'm good, I'll be happy. I'm just not gonna read it at all and stay content in my own mind.

I think the biggest learned behavior that I would love to get rid of is that little voice that tells you, 'That's stupid. You shouldn't say that.' And then five seconds later, you hear somebody saying the same thing, and you think, 'Seriously, what is wrong with me?' I think, in particular, a lot of women do it. And that's a problem.

I've always believed applause is food for an artist.

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21.

You need a manager that believes in you and shows that he believes in you by playing you.

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

It's just my job to prove I belong in there. I've been in the league a long time.

I was one of those players that had to come in and prove that I can belong on this field with these girls, and I can hang in this league as well.

I'll go out there and prove to everybody that I belong to the Cup Series.

I want to show who I am, show my best tennis, show why I'm there, why I belong.

I didn't need the belt to validate me.

The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.

Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony.

Maybe – as my friend the documentary maker Adam Curtis emailed me – they're turning social media into 'a giant echo chamber where what we believe is constantly reinforced by people who believe the same thing.' We express our opinion that Justine Sacco is a monster. We are instantly congratulated for this – for basically being Rosa Parks. We make the on-the-spot decision to carry on believing it.

She chuckled to herself, pressed send, and wandered around the airport for half an hour, sporadically checking Twitter. "I got nothing," she told me. "No replies." I imagined her feeling a bit deflated about this—that sad feeling when nobody congratulates you for being funny, that black silence when the Internet doesn't talk back.