Quotes About Recognition

People are so quick to say someone is a fantastic player and deserves to win the Ballon d'Or after just one good year. I disagree with that.

There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!

It's always a dream to be on the cover, it's one of the things an athlete always aspires to do, to be on the cover of a videogame, but I never thought I would get to do it this quick.

Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

I don't call myself any kind of singer. I leave that to other people because there are plenty out there who're quick to do that.

When people compare me to Kylian Mbappe, I am not quicker than him.

Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.

You learn very quickly what people are so enamored with, and it's not necessarily me.

I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

Life will go on. I suppose the aura of the Nobel is such that my life will change, but I don't think I'm going to let it change much. You understand, I'm used to a quiet life.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly.

I have never clamored for an award and have quietly done my work over the years and have been as selective as possible.

I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I will be known as 'Dallas' starring Larry Hagman and the cast.' And at this point in my career - I was in my mid to late 30s - I thought, 'Now is the time when it's hottest for me to go out and establish my thing.'

It's interesting because I'll be out, and someone will say, 'I just loved you on 'Passions'! Did you just quit acting after that?'.

I never wanted to be an actor, and then 'GH' was the first time where my managers were like, 'Quit your day job. You got a thing.'

It comes to a point where a lot of people don't know if I'm a man or a woman. I find it quite a compliment.