Nikki Glaser Quotes

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

I have to prove myself to everybody.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

When I was a younger actor, I was pretty much solely motivated by validation. I just wanted to be told I was good and handsome and a part of the gang. It was pretty simple animal-social stuff. I don't care as much about those things anymore.

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me for more than just what I was showing off for.

It's not that I need everybody to be patting me on the back.

I didn't need the belt to validate me.

I'm not the sort of person who if everyone thinks you're fabulous you thrive on it.

No one really cares about you but you. They say they do, but everyone in Hollywood is a heat-seeking missile, and it's easy to go after the cute girl or guy that's new to town.

If you're confident in what you do, the compliment doesn't matter.

I feel great when people say good things about me. But what's important is that I have to show it on the pitch.

I don't need awards to show me how successful I am or to prove to me that I'm doing a good thing and that I'm succeeding.

I felt invisible in my family, and I wanted to be significant like my brothers were significant. I wanted my parents to pay attention, so I went out into the world with that driving me, that grasping, that seeking validation.

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

There's always people out there that's like, doubting me, you know what I mean? Even though I do embrace the people that embrace me and I'm grateful for them. But I always feel like, man, there's still people out there that's not giving it up. And I feel like I'm doing everything the right way, you know what I mean? I'm really going out of my way to do it the right way. I'm taking very few cheats - very few cheat codes that I'm using.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.

If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.