Quotes About Recognition

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.

I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.

I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

You're good enough, Jacob.

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.

Over the years I've become more confident in people's ability to recognize a good thing.

I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition.

I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.