Quotes About Approval

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'

I support the president 100 percent - when he's right.

I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

They got a great performance from me. I was happy.

As a performer, we look for applause.

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you're performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who's dependent on other people's approval.

You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

I don't recall the beginning of what you said, and consequently I also don't grasp the middle sections, while the part at the end I don't approve of.

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

At a first glance, medical psychology seems to have nothing to do with religion. But at its depth it provides a new, though at the same time primordial, perspective on what should be the subject matter of religion. It is both a criticism and an approval of religion. It is in and through the soul that problems of the world reveal themselves as world problems.

When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

I always get more applause than votes.

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

We're all vulnerable to social approval. The need to belong, to be approved or appreciated by our peers is among the highest human motivations. But now our social approval is in the hands of tech companies.

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

I thought I would be too vulnerable on stage doing standup. I didn't want to get up there and say: 'This is who I am. I want you to like me.'

President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

Patients who face long odds and terminal illnesses do not always have access to the latest drugs in clinical trials. They don't want to give up, but they don't have years to wait for new drugs to receive FDA approval.

Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of people.