Quotes About Recognition

When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.

Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

I'm always doubting my work, even when people are kind enough to say good things. I still have a hard time believing I've written some books, let alone that they've actually done pretty well.

... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

I know people dont think I work.

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.

People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.

A writer's work is to witness things.

I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.

I feel like I want to be known first and foremost for my work.

I'm not going to work so that Pena Nieto is the best known or most recognized in the world. I'm going to work so that Mexico has results.

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.

I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.