Quotes About Recognition

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

I don't think I've ever been starstruck because they're just, you know... everybody's a person; we all come and go the same way.

I always wanted to be a popular comedian.

Gilbert Gottfried, I think, is just the most underappreciated comedian in the world. I think that he doesn't get enough credit for how funny he is.

If I am known as a comedian or I get to be known as one, it is because of one of two reasons - either you have not tried or you have accepted it.

The tags in this business don't leave you... When I was a VJ, they called me VJ-turned-actor, then I turned into a comedian, and now I am a serious actor.

I would loved to be called an actor, and not comedian.

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

It took me seven years to even comfortably say that I'm an actor.

I'm fighting because I want to be the best and I want to beat the best and I want to make a name for myself. I'm not fighting because I want to live comfortably for the rest of my life.

Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.

Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.

When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even know who I was.

If I do foray more into writing comic books, I definitely would hope that my acceptance is based more on my ability to write than my ability to schmooze my way in as a celebrity.

When I first started doing comedy, I was 42 years old, and I was the brother of one of the most celebrated comics in history who made his name in the game 20 years earlier.

I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.

It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

When people commend me on my success, I know I didn't just get it. I actually earned it.

The films that I have done are commendable.

People always used to ask me 'What makes a celebrity?' and I used to say: 'Being asked to comment mostly on things you know nothing about.'

I'm not a player who needs telling every day in training 'you're brilliant, you're this, you're that'... but it's always nice to hear comments from the manager and people around that you're doing well.