Quotes About Recognition

I'm very lucky, because it's a combination of the German, the Hebrew, the Swiss, the French, and that accent helped because as soon as people heard it they knew it was me.

I never used to be taken seriously as a Swiss person.

I wish there was a switch that I could flip, where no one knows me. And then, when I'm ready to make a splash, I'd flip the switch and say, 'Hey, I'm ready now.' Unfortunately, that doesn't happen.

I hate moaning comics, but I do find it very frustrating when I switch on BBC Four or BBC Two to find they're repeating some piece of crap sitcom. I think: Why don't they show mine? Not because I'd make any money, it would just be nice for it to be shown.

When people started recognising me as a 'chocolate hero,' I switched on to action movies and became an action star. I kept reinventing myself. it was a continuous process.

Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.

I am not so famous. I'm known in a few countries like Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and around the Alps. Some climbers in Beijing know my name, and some in America, but I am not really famous. It's very relative, my fame.

No one in Switzerland knows me as the Swiss Machine, and that's good, because I don't like it.

I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.

'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.

The benefits from stardom as Klinger outweigh any setbacks. It's a double-edged sword. What makes you famous is what interferes with getting other roles.

Calling yourself the 'Best Kept Secret' is a die on your own sword.

It messes me up sometimes when I go on stage and people say my name wrong. Say my name wrong with all these different syllables. I've heard everything. My name is easy as 1-2-3. Jer-eh-mih, syllable-wise.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.

I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

Just because of 'Rangeela' and 'Daud,' it can't be said that I am a sex symbol.

After 'Jungle,' people have realized that I'm not just a sex symbol.

I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.

I wouldn't want to be known only as a sex symbol. I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so.

It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.