Quotes About Recognition

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

Recognize your highest calling as early as possible in life.

There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life.

You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.

The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!

Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

And the council doesn't recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

For those of you who don't know who I am, I played Natalie on The Facts of Life.

People only look at me as a Beatle but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.

When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

I would have liked to have worked with Carrie Preston. I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life.