Quotes About Recognition

Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.

I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the Story,' not to blow my own horn.

I really want to demonstrate I'm not to be overlooked anymore.

Oftentimes, I feel like, because of my cisnormative look or my aesthetics, that sometimes my talent might get overlooked.

A lot of the shows I have done, I'm often the only black guy and I have often had to play second or third fiddle. It isn't necessarily a bad thing if it is a strong ensemble cast. But I feel people have overlooked my abilities.

A lot of people think that if something doesn't happen right away with women or with a particular minority, they are overlooked and they're not important and that is so much not the case.

We always hear Compton and Long Beach, but Watts is always overlooked.

I do think that maybe, sometimes, I get overlooked. I think it's maybe because I don't present the average image of an MMA fighter.

I didn't feel like I had as many fans as the other girls. It was a strange feeling. I never thought that it was because I was the darkest member of the band. I felt overlooked. So I did everything to make myself more noticed, convinced I wasn't good enough.

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

I was an overnight sensation.

I don't really think reviewing music is something you're going to get famous doing overnight.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn't handle it.

I think people think how I got work came easy. People assume that I was an overnight sensation, because they're just now hearing about me, or that everything happened very quickly.

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

I was so grateful to win an Emmy, but just being nominated, it's not overrated!

I think I'm overrated as a director!

I feel like, at times, I've been seen as the dirty stepchild of Australian comedy. I think there's a few people out there that are pissed off that I made it big overseas.