Quotes About Validation

It always feels good when you hear another guy in your industry give you praise.

One of my pet hates is people re-Tweeting praise, I loathe it more than anything else in the world.

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

All these years, when someone praised my work, I would feel lucky.

It's very flattering to be praised for each of your efforts.

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

It is very satisfying to see people praising you and your character, and the journey of the character moved them. It gives you a lot of confidence as an actor.

I do sometimes feel like I function within an echo chamber and I'm just kind of preaching to the choir.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

People can assume and predict and it is up to us to prove them all wrong.

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.

I don't have a desire to prove people wrong, as such, because if you take a look at my Premier League record it's not too bad.

From a personal point of view, when you're hitting the back of the net at Premier League level people recognize that you're doing something right.

The big Premier League clubs will only call me if I win a title in Germany.

You're seen a certain way in the acting world. To them, you're still a football player and not taken as seriously. They think you're just doing it to be a celebrity, to keep your name out there. They don't think you'll prepare.

I read the 'Fargo' hashtag and what people tweeted at me and every article and every comment on every article. I really just ate it up. But I wasn't prepared for hearing what everybody thought of me.

Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.

It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

I've always said that you're obviously doing something right if you have got pressure on you.

Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

It's a horrible thing to have someone pretend like they know what you're about and call you a fraud when they haven't given you a fair shot.

When you left this one theater in Norfolk, the actors had to walk through the lobby to get out to the street. People would see you and say nice things, tell you that you were good. So, pretty soon I'm pretending to forget things backstage, going through the lobby a couple of times.

I look back at my old school journals, and they're full of self-hatred, full of me condemning myself for not being prettier, richer, more popular.