Quotes About Recognition

It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30, on account of your sister, brother in law and your bottom.

I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema.

From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."

The thing is, though, that some of these people are my age, right? And I didn't know them. I didn't know Susan Sarandon. I mean, I'd seen her.

When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Middle age is when you have met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else and usually is.