Quotes About Recognition

A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.

I don't know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

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

My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

I don't need my name in lights I'm famous in my Father's eyes Make no mistake He knows my name.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.

In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.

I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.