Quotes About Recognition

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

I'm proud of the work that I've done. I don't care what people label me as.

It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.

When they say America is the land of opportunity, it's true. If you work hard, people appreciate you.

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.