Ego Validation Quotes

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that's very cool.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work.

There are two kinds of witnesses. One kind is the people that surround you. You are constantly aware that you are being watched, witnessed. With so many eyes watching you, you are reduced to an object... And you are afraid because they may not appreciate you. They may not feed your ego, they may not like you, they may reject you. Now you are in their hands.