Quotes About Recognition

As a performer, I'm happy if one person gets to see the work I do, but to have lots of people see it and appreciate it, it feels good.

If a comedian has a strong following, and the branded segment feels different compared to what you typically do, people will know right away that it's not authentic to who you are as a comedian or performer. Brands need to keep that in mind.

Because Slash is such a well-known performer all over the world, it definitely helped with the awareness of Alter Bridge. People come up to me and say that they saw me playing with Slash, and it turned them on to the other things I do.

You put me in the room with my family and everyone I grew up with, and I'd be the last person that you'd say is the performer.

Blake Griffin has shown he can be an All-NBA performer.

It's really important to prove yourself as a performer and as an actor.

I needed to get attention a lot of times - I'm a performer, that's who I am.

The critics noticed me as a performer only with 'Dor.'

We never forget we're all in this together. But Gwen's an incredible performer and she deserves all the attention she gets.

I firmly believe the industry does not let down performers.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

Performing at the TMCF Awards Gala is so exciting.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

When you're performing on Broadway every night, you're so much more accessible to people in the industry. Everybody is going to know who you are.

My goal was always to get better roles, and in my case, performing on stage really led to great opportunities. My breakthrough came when I did Calder Willingham's 'End as a Man' on stage and was spotted by Max Arnow, who'd been the casting chief for Columbia.

When I was younger, I used to love the idea of writing songs and performing them live. But that was all I thought about. I didn't think about people getting to know my face.

My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.