Quotes About Recognition

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

From that day on I go to each door in turn and sing the three songs that I remember from school. Within a few days I'm overwhelmed how happy they appear to be when they hear or recognize me.

Something deep within him, what it was he had no leisure nor skill to recognize, seemed to retreat down long dim corridors away from the doom that impeded. He hadn't known he had those convenient corridors of evasion in him, with their protective turns and angles by which to put distance between himself and menace. Oh clever architect of the Mind, oh merciful blueprints that made such emergency exits available.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

There was a part of her that cried out, 'Am I good enough yet?' but who was she hoping would answer that question?

It's a strange feeling to be both famous and unknown at the same time.

What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!

Sophie thought about Frank's cock sometimes, how famous it was. Not as famous as his voice, sure, but famous in cock terms. Most cocks were seen by only a handful of people: Mom, Dad, creepy uncle, priest, bunkmates, and lovers. Frank's cock had been seen by thousands of showgirls. It was a well-known cock; more than well known, it was a star. Jesus, Frank's cock probably had anecdotes.

You are not who others say you are. You are who I say you are.

The idiot actually leaned in. "I said, do you know who the fuck I am?" Henry peered at him and actually looked concerned. "Do you not know who you are?

Everybody in this county knows your flavor, Walt Longmire.

As we started to turn and walk out, the big and easy Samoan reached over and touched Henry's shoulder, the arm attached having powered the biker's head into the drywall of the Rapid City Regional Hospital. "I know you?" The Bear smiled the one-crease-at-the-corner-of-his-mouth smile. "Momentarily.

The Cedar Man also began looking familiar, and I recognized him as Willis Weist, who had disappointed my mother; she had observed him going to as many as four white-person church services each Sunday. A confirmed Methodist, she'd finally asked him which one he liked the best, to which he had responded, "Pentecostal." My heartbroken mother asked why. He'd shrugged, "Because they have the best potluck dinners." There

I've done four other films since 'Submarine ' so that's quite cool. It's just good to have people respect your work I've never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. I'm a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and it's a whole new world.

The book of Revelation is a book of worship that summons us to recognize the awesome majesty of our Lord.

Sometimes people identified too strongly with the famous—it was one of the prices of notoriety, especially when so many considered you to be a hero. Batman sometimes filled much too large a hole in people's lives.

Jasper Jones fell out of this world and nobody noticed...And they'll notice now because something has been burned. Now they'll look for Jasper Jones.

You know how you meet someone and you feel like you've known them all your life? That's how it was.

What's the point of doing anything if nobody's watching?

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

We don't always recognize mercy when we see it. It isn't always what we want or think we need, but it's there. It's here.