Quotes About Recognition

You get notoriety when you fight.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.

I played with a band, and the lead singer would always introduce me as 'the 13-year-old lead guitarist.' I didn't want to be a novelty, like 'Oh, she has three arms! Check her out.' But I've learned to accept it as more of a compliment.

I'm geek royalty now.

Every now and then, someone will stop me and say, 'Do I know you?' And I just say, 'Nope.'

Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

In my line of work, I frequently communicate with CEOs and their executive assistants, and nowhere is the need for gratitude more clear.

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

Number one is a great thing, and I'll always know that I'm number one, but 44 is my favourite number, so I want to keep it on the car.

Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

As a model, only a limited number of people knew about me.

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.