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.
The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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.
When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.
They crave attention though, they always saying show me som but girl you aint the only one that's tryna be the only one
Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.
The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
A bedrock of insecurity made me want to impress and want to be the center of attention.
I want people to like me and, if there's any doubt, I sort of worry.
If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.
I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.
I've always been looking for other people's approval.
Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'
I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do.
Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
Feeling invisible definitely makes you want to become visible sometimes.
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Wanting attention is genderless. It's human.
On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're good or that you're worth going to see or worth taping a show. There's a lot of pain here. There's a lot of pain inside. I'm a sad, crying-on-the-inside kind of clown.
I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
