Quotes About Recognition

When I'm on tour, people see me in one way, but in normal life I doubt people even recognize me.

I think I have the perfect level of fame. 99% of the time, I'm a normal person. But once a day someone comes up to say hello, and it's beautiful.

I'm one of those artists who doesn't really believe in fame. You can be a normal person these days, you don't need celebrity appeal.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

I used to get off the bus, and there'd be a crowd around, you know, and I was thinking, 'God, I hope this is not for me.' And it normally was, and it was because someone said something to my sister, and the first she says is, 'Well, I'll get my brother.'

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.

In North America, many fans know Cristiano Ronaldo's smirk and can recognize Didier Drogba in a commercial. Maybe they know too much for the good of M.L.S.

No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you.

There's been many highs throughout my international career which I'll always remember with fondness, including my debut against Northern Ireland, winning two international player of the year awards, and my hat-trick in Malta.

I've always been quite famous for my nose.

It's a lot of hard work, competing and not giving up. I think you get more appreciated the older you get.

To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough.

A lot of people are not interested in stories in which they don't see themselves.

I'm not interested in the idea of celebrity.

I am not interested in being a star.

Having a scapegoat means not knowing that we have one.

I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers.

I love the idea of being on stage and people thinking they know who Michael Ball is, they've got an image and then not knowing and going: who's that? I mean, that's the best compliment ever.

I had gone from writing alone, not talking to anyone, to suddenly being in a room filled with not only people but actual celebrities.

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.