Jhonen Vasquez Quotes

It isn't important to me how people respond to my work.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I don't need anyone to validate me.

I don't think I need to prove anything to anybody.

I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.

I don't need to be validated by anybody else; I don't need to be accepted or approved of for my happiness.

I don't need validation from people at all.

I ain't got nothing to prove to nobody.

I wanted to prove to myself I can do something on my own. Not for the world, but for myself. To have that self-confidence.

I was never the kind of person who cared much what people thought about me.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think.

I'm not trying to be as good or better than anybody; that's not how I work.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.