Quotes About Recognition

There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.

They're strange, the Aussies. Because if they like you, they say, 'Oh, he's an Aussie.' And I keep saying, 'I'm not, I'm from Preston.' There's nothing Australian about me. Don't start claiming me just because I've got a job over here.

It is great for your work to get through to both the masses and classes.

I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know that I'm a true All-Star. The selection process is not very accurate.

I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunion always say the same thing. They could not believe that, being a world artist, I still seem like I was when we were at school together.

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

I'm known clean around the Earth.

You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.

If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made that quite clear.

I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.

I love Cleveland; I'll always want to fight there. But there's a lot going on in New York. I'd like to go somewhere I'm not known as well.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

I really want to be known for my work. That sounds like such a... cliche, and I've thought about how else I can say it to make it sound less hackneyed. But that's what it comes down to... I know people are interested in these things.

The only reason I want to climb up the rankings - beating the champion and beating guys in the top five - those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That's the only reason why.

You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.

In America, they often don't know where I am from. The important point is the audience should not be able see through it. It should be so natural that your close friends may even think that you are not a great actor.

There are not too many leg-spinners in the world, and if you look closely, Mishra bhai will stand out as one of the best.

I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield.

I know that people are going to recognize my voice as being different and they are going to be saying, 'Let me listen a little bit closer to see if she says something that I don't agree with.' They're probably going to pay a little bit more attention.

My Emmy is in my china closet. People don't really look at it, though.

I don't think any of my classmates would say I was a class clown.

I think, for Catalonia, FC Barcelona means a lot because it is one of the top clubs in the world, and that means that it's a way to show what Catalonia is in the world.