Quotes About Recognition

Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

My mother and father definitely encouraged me. People used to tell my mom that I should be in commercials, and then everything kicked off from there, and my first gig was some print work.

I used to be so excited when I saw my name in print.

Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.

My dad came to Korea one time, and then he pulls out a whole bunch of my headshot prints. He's like, 'Amber, you need to sign all of this for me because all of my friends want these.' I guess that's when I kind of realized I was 'famous.'

Prior to the 'Chappelle's Show,' you know, no one would even listen to me, in the frame of, 'Oh, he is trying to be funny.'

I'd like to think I wouldn't get booed off stage if I chose not to wear the head - I did gigs prior to having the head made and never had any problems. I'm aware though that, as a gimmick, it can create its own little monster as a brand.

My main priorities were to fight for Britain. Not a lot of Asians get selected for this country at anything, and it's a great achievement.

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

I'm very appreciative and humbled by the success of 'Prison Break.'

When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'

I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I can send them to prison.

I didn't realize how famous I got since I went to prison. I got fan letters, but I didn't realize it blew up like that.

I couldn't get on a 'Source' cover 'til I went to prison.

Oh, what am I for the Frenchman or the Italian? A guy who was in prison, a revolutionary, somebody they once read something about in the newspaper - but not me.

I'm somebody who values anonymity - not just in terms of not wanting people to recognize me or wanting my privacy, but I value anonymity in conversation.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human.

I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.

I don't want to have anything to do with that: just the fame without personal respect for your privacy.

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.

I go into the local chemist, and I can hear people saying, 'Oh my Gaaahd - it's Lisa Kudrow!' And there's a famous Amanda Foreman, an actress two years older than me, who appears in 'Private Practice'.