Quotes About Recognition

There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.

Most people can differentiate between the guy you see on TV and the real-life guy.

It's hard for people to differentiate between a character they see on television and a person who plays the character.

People need to differentiate me from my roles.

I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.

You sort of feel when you are given an award, you feel like, well then you have got to do something to deserve having been given the award. It worked differently with me cause I didn't feel that I had done enough.

I think we all have different ways with coming to terms with celebrity if you're raised within it. Everyone goes through it differently, and there's no one right answer.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

I think the fundamental issue with comedians is everyone wants to be a famous comedian. That's a really difficult thing to achieve in comedy.

Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?

There is dignity in being a celebrity. Let us not lose that dignity.

Come on, just because I'm an entertainer it doesn't mean I don't have any dignity!

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

The fact that designers like Lagerfeld, Gaultier, Galliano and Dior could believe in Alek made me believe in myself, too.

I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.

I directed my first movie, not one piece of press!

'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.

I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.