Quotes About Recognition

We all know that Sarah Palin loves attention.

I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.

Many years ago, I was a young and, dare I say it, very hot new comedian. Maybe even the hottest of all if the now defunct Perrier panel of judges were to be believed.

There's a panic, a rush, to this 'achievement' of fame. There's also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of it. We sometimes hate the famous while, at the same time, straining to achieve fame oneself.

I don't know about you, but for me, if I got to present any kind of award, I'm shaking in my pants.

I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.

I'm definitely a ham for the paparazzi.

I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.

I think I've ignored it so much so that when the paparazzi are following me I really don't see them. You don't see them anymore.

I don't really want to find myself face-to-face with 10,000 paparazzi. I just want to be comfortable.

The paparazzi don't care about me.

I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say 'hi,' which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

The paparazzi and the press have given me a voice. No matter how I got the voice, it's there.

I don't think I'll ever get chased by paparazzi - which is a good thing.

Everyday, I get up in the morning and I see a picture of my grandson in newspapers. Now everyone recognizes his maid also! That's because of the paparazzi.

I haven't really had any experiences, as far as having paparazzi sit outside of my house or following me around on the street. But, I actually don't really go to places where they do that, unless they knew where I lived or what kind of car I drive.

I got followed by the paparazzi because they thought I was Shannyn Sossamon.

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.