Quotes About Recognition

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

If we want equality, we shouldn't then expect to be praised just because we're doing a certain job. That's not equality.

When your show is being praised by a maker like 'Sooraj Barjatya' you feel really special.

It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you.

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

It is very satisfying to see people praising you and your character, and the journey of the character moved them. It gives you a lot of confidence as an actor.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

I just happen to know how to hit a baseball and throw a baseball. But I probably couldn't go into somebody else's job and be as good as they are but no one's praising them about it.

You get to a certain point where you feel comfortable. You've got everybody praising you for what you do where you come from, sometimes you let down your guard.

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

I went to Ayodhya, offered my prayers, I got respect even when I was not the Chief Minister.

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, or they've worked with me, or they know me, or we've met. So there's a lot of backstuff on the 'Vicki!' show.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Don't call me a hero. I would prefer myself being called as an actor.

I prefer to be able to identify what I'm eating. I have to know.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.

I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.

Mum and dad thought I was going to say I was pregnant. I said oh no, no, I've just been nominated for a Golden Globe. They were like, oh that's lovely, love.