Quotes About Recognition

It is obviously pleasing to see your name associated with La Nazionale.

As an actor, it's so, so rewarding and so pleasing to not be reprimanded.

Being considered for Sixth Man is definitely something that is pleasing.

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

But listen, I'm 29-years-old, I'm really lucky to be there and whatever happens I've been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I'd be really content.

I get plenty of credit out on the road.

People always say, 'There are plenty of black country artists out there! There is Charley Pride! Darius Rucker!' That's all they can name. They don't understand what we go through, and a lot of people who are fans of traditional country music, as they call it, look at us and aren't going to say, 'Y'all like country music.'

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

I'm a very famous wife but I'm still plodding along in my career.

One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn't pay electricity.

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

I'm not famous, which generally is an absolute plus point, but if you're on TV, or someone knows who you are, it can be quite helpful to a certain charity or certain cause.

Any time you are in a position where your peers plus the people who paid your bills all your life are honoring you, it doesn't get a hell of a lot better than that.

When I have 7,000 people plus at Red Rock just for a show of mine, I think it's wonderful to get that many people to come see you.

I feel like as much as there's a little pocket of people who do know me, there's a whole bigger pocket that doesn't and I want them to know me and understand who I am for real before making pre-judgments.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

I don't think I need to stand on a podium and say what kind of performance I've given in 'Yatra' or any other film.

Whenever I was on the podium, it felt weird. I was obviously happy to have done well, but it wasn't truly happy from the bottom of my heart.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look back, that is phenomenal encouragement.