Quotes About Approval

I'm always sad when Dad doesn't like my columns. He waits for them every week and usually likes them, in which case he doesn't say a word - it's only if he's critical that he bothers to call.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it is.' I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they're not, and that's OK. I'm just going to be me. You can't be everything to everyone.

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

I don't really get nervous in front of people. I kind of walk into every situation like I'm walking in to meet my peers, and they either like me or not.

I like Ben Carson.

Joss Whedon is the best man on the planet.

I bet I would make a really good daughter-in-law.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

I'm a big fan of Donald Glover in general.

Marty Scurll is fantastic, and I am a big fan of his work.

I know I have a lot of fans, and it's a big mistake try to please everybody.

I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.

The President doesn't ring people out of the blue, so you know you've done something well.

I really like Bobby Jindal.

You don't want 8,000 fans booing you so you want them on your side.

It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem.

People like you as long as you agree with them. But that doesn't bother me.

You have to have box office success because only then will people show interest in you.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.