Quotes About Recognition

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

Every single day, I get asked by people to do the face, so Im bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.

I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

It only takes for one person to remind you that you are special, and then your whole life is changed.

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.