Quotes About Recognition

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.

I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, "He knows where the good food is," which is an awesome correlative. It's an awesome simplification.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

I feel like I am more deserving than last year. It definitely feels good just to be on the team.

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

Being a celebrity at a very high level is a good thing.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'

I got my Backstage Bistro Award, I should just retire. You know, that's a good question and I guess it's really really different for everybody.