Quotes About Recognition

It harms me when people say I am 'non-mainstream' or 'non-commercial' actor. I try to fight off such labels.

If people say my numbers aren't enough for the Hall of Fame, I'm fine with that.

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'

When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.

People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

People say, 'I know you, don't I?' And they expect me to say I know them from their daughter's school or something - they can't place me. And I love that. Long may it last.

I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.

They are going to be playing Shaggy and Scooby-Doo for eons and eons, and they're going to forget Casey Kasem - unless they happen to step on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I'll be one of those guys people say, 'Who's that?' about. And someone else will say, 'He's just some guy who used to be on the radio.'

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'

Here in America, the big-brand collaborations kind of signify how far you've gotten. So in that sense, it's a giant kudos to us that we, within the first year, get to be the first ones to be the launchers of this Pepsi Sound Drop.

Once you identify the intrinsically motivated people, you realize that fancy degrees can actually be a negative - that some of the people who have them are more focused on how others perceive them.

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

People seem to think that I'm not aware of how people perceive me. But I'm the one that has to talk about 'Police Academy' all day long 27 years later. I'm totally aware of it.

A lot of people don't perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

Really, I have no idea how I'm perceived in the industry.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.