Quotes About Recognition

For me, if awards are not increasing my remuneration or adding value to the offers that I get, they have no meaning.

I love Kamal and Sarika because they are my parents. But nobody buys me a car because of that, and you aren't flooded with offers, either.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

Because of what I did in Punjabi cinema, I have got offers in Bollywood.

To be very frank, I never got very good offers from Hindi cinema until 'Eega.' Now, I'm flooded with offers.

Really and truly, everyone just wants to be paid for what they've done, so they can continue to do it, and see your work in the highest production quality. TV offers that.

My first Bhojpuri film 'Panditji Bataayina Biyaah Kab Hoii' was a huge hit. After that the offers poured in and they were too good to be ignored.

Ever since I gave the nod for Chattakari,' I've been flooded with offers from the Malayalam film industry, like never before.

Directors didn't flood me with offers because I was Subhendu's son. I had to slog to find my foothold.

The funny thing about 'Office Space' is I almost never get my lines quoted back to me.

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.

At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.

Liverpool followed me for a long time. When I arrived in the offices there, they showed me cassettes of me in the Under-15s. Everyone knew me. I couldn't believe it.

'Hum Dono' was accepted in a very big way. It was the official entry at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival.

There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official.

The Censor officials who saw 'Uthamaputhiran' appreciated me a lot. All the credit should go to Mithran Jawahar and Dhanush.

Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.

What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven't encountered them. It's a little weird to find your footing.

I don't think about, 'Oh, I'm finally getting my respect,' because I don't care about this.

I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'

Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.

I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field.

In America, people come up and to me, and I keep thinking they're going to say, 'Oh, I loved you on 'ER.'' Now it's, 'Oh, I love you on 'Doctor Who.''