Quotes About Recognition

My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

I feel that in spite of having a big launch with 'RNBDJ' and the film doing well for me in terms of getting appreciation, I don't think it made me the next big thing.

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

In terms of being a famous person, it hasn't changed anything. It's not important for me.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

Why am I not a household name in Britain? Why have I not got the recognition I deserve after so long? I think the fact that none of my fights are seen on terrestrial television is significant but, other than that, I don't exactly know. I really don't.

I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.

You know how Bette Midler always says her obituary will read, 'Bette Midler dies. Started her career at the Continental Baths?' Mine will say 'Chris March died. He was on Season 4 of 'Project Runway.'' It's an amazing show, it did a lot for me, and I'm fine with it. Unless it becomes terribly disreputable.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

The IMPAC is a terribly important award.

My kids completely understand that I may be on a huge show or in a big movie, but most of the time, they are not terribly impressed.

When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

The great part of appearing on game shows is that when you answer a question the camera takes a close-up of you every time. You get more close-ups than in a movie, and that's terrific for audience identification. The people have to see you to like you.

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

I've been very lucky. There are guys I know who are really terrific in this business of stand-up who have not gotten the recognition they deserve. And it's nice, if you've put in the time, to achieve that recognition.