Quotes About Recognition

There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it that. And I think 'Martin Bonner' showed what's possible. Later in life, when you've been working at something for a long time, to actually get some kudos for what you do is wonderful.

Sometimes, people know me from Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' But that usually only happens in America.

Stacy Keach was marvelous. He looked more like my father than anyone who had ever played him before.

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

I think Mary Kom should be an international star.

What keeps an artiste going is the adulation of the masses.

The Masters is always at the front and center of my mind, and not because I'm the only one thinking about it. Other people associate me with this great event, and that's an honor.

One thing that's nice about doing a movie about people that hardly anyone knows, you never worry if they're a perfect match.

When I was in the indies, the guys would be like, 'Ugh, a women's match. I'm not gonna watch that.' And to come back here, at every single Live Event to have a guy come up to you and say, 'That was amazing,' I feel so accomplished.

I'll be walking down the street with a mate, and someone will stop and say 'All right Crouchy, how's things?' and so on. Once they're gone, the person I'm with will say 'Do you know them?' and I'll say 'I've never met them before in my life'. Happens all the time.

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

My mates and my family know who I am and that's all I really care about. Making my parents proud and happy.

I get it everywhere, 'Look at the math teacher. Look at the science teacher.' I get it everywhere I go, which I can kind of enjoy.

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

I try to be the best and give the maximum so that people can say I'm among the top players.

Most people have trouble pronouncing my name, so they just call me 'Mayor Pete.'

My goals all along were to win state and play in the McDonald's All-American game. I'm happy I was able to accomplish those things.

But basically, at the end of the day, I want to do meaningful work that I'm proud of - whether only 3 people see it or 300,000,000.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

To be successful to me meant to have a hit record in England. I never looked outside England.

I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me.

I wasn't meant to be famous. I've been blessed.

Michael was the first person to show me what it meant to be a star... but you cannot be that star and not accept all the things that came with it.

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