Daily Inspiration Quote by Vicky Krieps

Krieps is smuggling a small revolution into a sentence that sounds almost like a reassurance you’d hear in a dressing room mirror. “Approved” is the telling verb: it borrows the language of auditions, gatekeepers, and silent casting judgments, then flips the power dynamic. The world trains you to arrive already wanting permission - to be hired, liked, validated, chosen. She insists that permission is not something you earn after passing someone else’s test; it’s issued at birth.

The subtext is a critique of the “fix yourself” economy that shadows modern life, especially for women and especially in an industry built on tweakability. Acting is literally a profession of alteration: wardrobe, makeup, accent, posture, branding. When Krieps says “perfect”, she’s not selling glossy perfectionism; she’s puncturing it. Perfection here means wholeness, not flawlessness - a refusal to treat the self as a perpetual renovation project.

“There’s nothing you have to add or take away” lands because it rejects both halves of the cultural trap: the hunger to accumulate (more success, more desirability, more followers) and the pressure to subtract (less weight, less neediness, less age, less “too much”). It’s also a quiet attack on the meritocratic myth that worth is conditional. In a time when identity is constantly being optimized, curated, and compared, Krieps offers something rarer than inspiration: a boundary.