Quotes About Recognition

When you meet people who are exceptional, you know it. I feel it straight away.

When we were little, our parents couldn't tell us apart from the side or the back, they had to look at us straight on.

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

There is nothing in a name. My husband, Santhosh Menon, called me Navya at first, which I did not like as it was my screen name. He knew me as Navya and found calling me Dhanya strange, so he came up with a pet name.

I'll be in, like, Starbucks or something and I'll say my order and someone will snap their head around and go, 'Whaat, Alaska?! Hieeee!' I find it nice because I can be alone in a strange city where I don't know where I am, and then if a fan runs into me I feel like I am among friends and family.

I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

I feel the superstardom is God-given. I don't know how Pawanism came. I find it strange.

Fame is a very strange animal.

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

If you don't have the best player in the world in the team, it would be strange if you didn't notice the difference.

Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

It's a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer.

For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that something you've created and put out there in the world has had some sort of impact on other people's lives.

You know, I get recognized for Turk Barrett probably more than any of my other roles, even more than the 'Stranger Things' role.

Some people come up to me in public and they're like, 'Oh my God, are you Noah from TikTok?' It's so weird to get recognized for that. I think it's the really young fans who have never even heard of 'Stranger Things.'

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.