Quotes About Approval

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

It feels great when your work gets appreciated.

My dad read 'The Danish Girl' and fell in love with it. He told me, 'You need to do this film.'

A couple times I've been out with my mom and a few people wanted pictures. My mom loves it.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

I mean there's something I have achieved in life, even if it's little, and if people write about it, then it's fine.

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.

I've always wanted to be the first one to laugh at me. I didn't want to get up on stage and start doing something and have someone say, 'Are you serious? Do you think that's good?'

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

I think that we all desperately try to fit in to different molds: our parents, our bosses, our partners, social status, friends. We all figure out a look that we think will get us the job or make his parents approve of us or get that girl to want to go on a date, whatever. We all change ourselves to please whoever it is.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.

I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.

It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.

If 10 people see my movie and all ten really love it, then that means a lot to me, rather than ten million people go and see it and most of them hate it.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

When people smile in your direction when you do something, you tend to continue to do it.

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.