Quotes About Recognition

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small indie band.

If no one hears you, and no one listens to you, it doesn't matter how good you are because no one cares about you.

No one's going to remember you after football. No one cares about you after football.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'.

I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

Of course people are going to compare me to my father, and there's no problem with that. At the end of the day, I'm going to have to live with that for the rest of my life, whether I like it or not.

There's no problem with a guard of honour in any way.

My mentality is I've never been the guy that always has to be the center of attention or has to be the front guy. I have no problem doing my job and somebody else getting the credit, or the attention being on somebody else.

few people in the department. Like him, they recognized the name but couldn't place it.

It broke my heart -- absolutely broke it into a million pieces -- that in all the world, only these people had seen the worthiness of my dad.

picked up on the first ring. "We've got information on a few Richard Franklins," he said. "It's not an unusual name, so more than one popped

Still, I have to admit that I

soon as I heard it, I knew it was perfect! And finally, thanks to Jason Reed, Jennifer Gibgot, and Adam Shankman for their work on the film version

Y cuando un hombre es tan especial, lo sabes mucho antes de lo que crees posible. Lo reconoces instintivamente, y tienes la certeza de que, pase lo que pase, nunca habrá otro como él.

Why isn't the pioneer of perforation chiseled into the façades of libraries, along with Locke, Franklin, and the standard bunch of French Encyclopedists?

One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of This is me!

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something. It's our inalienable right, as citizens of the twenty-first century. If Christina Aguilera or Britney or some American Idol jerk can be something, then why can't I? Where's mine, huh?

How come every squitty little shitty snotty bastard knows my name?

So, as she walked down the stairs into the club, she was looking forward to a seething, teeming, wriggling, wiggling throng of dancers, many of whom she'd recognize: she wanted to see former pupils, local shopkeepers, museum regulars, all of whom would look at her as if to say, Here we are! What kept you?

She didn't think she'd ever shown enough gratitude for the quick wits of the people she worked with, and if the evening ever ended, which it showed no signs of doing, she would rectify that. She would buy them all flowers or whisky and write a card thanking them for being so clever.

don't think people with talent necessarily value it, because it all comes so easy to them, and we never value things that come easy to us.