Validation Quotes

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

It's important for Asian American kids to see themselves in stories and to feel seen. They need to know that their stories are universal, too, that they, too, can fall in love in a teen movie. They don't have to be the sidekick; they can be the hero.

Different things make me feel sexy. Sometimes it's just a manicure or when I buy some new underwear or just receiving a compliment from a guy on the street. But I think to feel sexy, you just need the right person next to you, who's going to complete you and make you feel even sexier.

When you're succeeding, and you're doing something right... As I've got haters, I know I'm doing something right.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

No trusting without testing

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If you don't write, you don't eat." We all want to be respected and appreciated, but when you get a big honor like winning the Pulitzer, people start to look for your work in a new way with higher expectations. Today, the best thing about having won is when I get a nasty comment from some internet troll I can remind myself of the Pulitzer and say, "Well, somebody appreciates me".

The test of all knowledge is experiment.

When I went out to America, and someone wanted to sign me and invest in me, that was a big moment because, all my life, people have been trying to tell me to be different to what I was.

Trust but verify. Doveryai no proveryai.

It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

It's nice to have a lot of people supportive of what I'm doing.

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

Another thing about me dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

It's almost kind of satisfying when you get direct proof that someone stole your bit. It makes the times you had the paranoid suspicion feel less crazy.

There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am I bad, am I being judged, who likes me, who doesn't like me...'

for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.

I think there's something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don't care about anyone's approval.

I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.