Quotes About Approval

My mates and my family know who I am and that's all I really care about. Making my parents proud and happy.

It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

That's the most important thing because you want to be respected. When you see those best players in the league giving you their respect, that's what you want. At the end of the day, that really, really matters to me.

A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.

I'm not used to getting good reviews.

I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.

When great teams look at you it's always a source of pride. It means you're doing well and you're on the right track.

My parents are proud of me now. However, when I first became involved with rock music, they were afraid.

I was really happy with how 'Rogue One' came out.

My standout moment I would have to say was when 'Black Rose' dropped and getting the co-sign from Nas and The LOX. I would say all those moments together were crazy for me.

As for Roy, I love playing Roy. I'm working at it, but I wish I had less of a care of what people thought of me, so that I could be more like Roy.

I really love 'The Windsors' - and I hope the royal family love it, too.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

When people appreciate my work, that's satisfying as an artiste.

We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

It is nice to be validated by audiences and have people come up to you after a screening and tell you that they loved the movie. It never gets old.

I think a lot of us often don't express how we really feel because we're afraid of what others might think of us. So we secretly admire people who could care less. They do things that we don't allow ourselves to do.

The NBA requires that one person is the acting owner, the one person they can get on the phone and is accountable for anything that happens. That's why my dad started taking me to NBA board of governors meetings in 1995; you have to be approved as the owner.

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

Fame doesn't matter; people approving of you doesn't matter. And if it does matter, you're in store for something very difficult and painful.

I like Sarah Palin.

Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.