Quotes About Recognition

I'm not that good at knowing the price of things. Not because I live in a celebrity bubble, but just because I've always been rubbish at stuff like that.

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It's the price you pay.

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

I try to pride myself on being involved with the fans and taking pictures when they're asked for because I know I was that little kid one day that really looked up to stars like myself, and I try to give them that on my behalf.

There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.'

The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

People said I was king, but I was never king, and I say I'm the prime minister.

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.

It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

This is now the way our culture prioritises. Look up 'Steppenwolf,' and you'll get the band before the novel. Look up Jesus Christ, and you'll get the musical. Look up Princess Link-a-din and you'll get LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network.

People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!

When I did 'Goodtime Charley' that helped a great deal, but 'Dancin' was such a huge hit. It catapulted me in to being a consistent principal to count on.

When I got the deal to do 'J. Edgar,' which was really the brainchild of Brian Grazer, 'Milk' hadn't come out yet. We had just completed principal photography, and it was still basically this little film where we just really hoped someone would see it.

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.