Quotes About Recognition

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

Never name it after yourself. Maybe we'll throw a with in there. That seems to work. Like Late Show With David Letterman.

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

My job is for the people. It's for the public. It's for their consumption. So I've done a lot in that way, and I see that the hard work has finally paid off.

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd be honored to be in your work."

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.

I think that when you are famous, it can work against you, people have preconceptions about your image.

It's very easy to get caught up in - there's a hype going on now that I haven't seen in years, and it's actually more about press than it is about an actor's work or what films they've been in.

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'