Quotes About Recognition

There are so many things I'm so proud of: if we're talking just in-ring stuff, participating in the first-ever women's royal rumble. I was so grateful to be a part of history. I never thought there would be an all-women's royal rumble.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

I would love to act in films if people think I am right for a particular role.

My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

All my earlier awards were for a particular film or a song. Even the Oscar or the Grammy was for a particular song, but Dadasaheb Phalke is for my entire work so it is the biggest honor for me.

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

It's awkward going to parties with people you don't know, especially when they think they know you.

I didn't find fame particularly difficult, partly because I'm proud to be able to say I'm the most unrecognisable face in pop.

I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!

Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner.

If I die, I know the news item would be, 'Partner of Ricky Gervais and novelist dies.' That would come first. But I've come to terms with it. As long as they do still add the 'and novelist,' that will be fine.

Disney is looking at growing in emerging markets - and for them India is an important market. They also recognize how important it is to partner with a local Indian company.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

The first time I passed as a woman in public was on leave in the U.S. from my deployment to Iraq in February 2010.

People still don't know how good Kevin Love is because he played in Minnesota... you didn't see him much on TV. His passing, his knowledge of the game - the stuff that doesn't show up in the stats - he has so much going for him.

When I first started modeling, I had the chance to walk the runway with Naomi passing by me, but I didn't know anything about supermodels. But when I saw her backstage, she complimented me on my walk, and I thought she was so nice - everyone was freaking out that I didn't know who she was.

There are some people who do not need fifteen seconds on the Evening News to validate their existence.

An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.