Quotes About Approval

Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well, you're fine. I'd do anything. There's so much I want to do.

I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

I appreciate folks asking for my autograph.

Love and self-esteem are constructed through likes and followers.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

I have developed my own brand of acting, and fortunately, people like it.

If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

I have to be a freelance writer for the rest of my life, unless I get some kind of real lucky break. But other than that, I'll always have to work. I always worry about whether my stuff is going to get over. Will they like this, will they like that?

I think people are addicted to looking good in front of other people.

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

With Marvel, I obviously don't own the characters, so there are levels of approval to go through. But I'm very seldom told no, and never without reason. Maybe I've just been lucky; I don't know, but I don't think it's as frustrating as people generally imagine. I act as though I own it all while I'm writing, I think. I hope, anyway.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

I'd say she's ready, wouldn't you? --The Rook, The Looking Glass Wars

When I give the go ahead, go ahead. --Alyss

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

anything that man could approve must be worthless.

I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

Dad was much more critical. I did a comedy in Windsor and he came round afterwards with a load of paperwork and said nothing about my performance - just: 'I've got some forms for you to sign.'

At one point, I was greenlighting films and scripts that shouldn't have been made based on the fact that they had that stamp of approval of an Academy Award winner. And the good news is I got to learn the real process of filmmaking - directing, storyboarding, writing.