Quotes About Recognition

I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

I struggled with the limelight.

I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map.

I've struggled to get respect and dignity for my profession, and I do it in the way I lead my life as a fighter and as a human being.

I have struggled hard to attain this fame.

My grandfather was a great advocate of Scottish art at a time when Scottish artists struggled to be taken seriously. They were not highly regarded, but he fought for them, befriended them, and championed them.

The Oscars has its own struggles with the way the Academy is set up.

The new generation I feel does not know about Milka Singh, they don't know about the hard work I did, what struggles I went through, in Pakistan and India, they know just the name.

If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates.

As an insecure adult in Houston, a writer struggling to make myself heard, I was nourished by those hours with the Houston Rockets in ways that I did not recognize.

People will always have their opinions; I've come to learn whose matter.

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

You have to give every opponent the importance they deserve.

I'm not an 'opponent.' I don't believe I should be treated as an opponent.

When I would play in big games at Ohio State, if the Goodyear Blimp was there, you knew it was a big-time game against a big-time opponent.

You gain respect in your opponents' minds when you win a lot of matches.

I am happy that, post-'Aashiqui 2,' I am getting opportunities to work with big names.

Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.

I'm very flattered because Margot Robbie is insanely beautiful, but it's always annoying to have people focusing on your looks as opposed to what you're actually doing on the job. But also, I'll take it. There are worse people to be compared to.

It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as.

Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

I'm much more comfortable in a meritocracy and in reward for good work as opposed to a political environment, where I feel like all of that can be confused.

We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.