Quotes About Recognition

I think cool moments like winning a Grammy deserve a nice little party where you really soak it in and not have to work and stuff. I do remember throwing a party on that Grammy night, but it was work.

If I'm throwing a no-hitter and someone says, 'Hey, you've got a no-hitter,' obviously I'd be like, 'Yeah, I know.' I just try to be humble. I don't like to talk about myself. I have no problem speaking up when I screw up, but if I'm doing good, people are going to notice. I don't need to talk about it.

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

I know my name is thrown out there and I could care less about it. It is something that comes with the sport when you are on top of the podium.

I think that being thrown into instant fame must be, at times, difficult.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, 'Of course you are.' And I'm like 'No,' not, 'Of course I am.' In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime: everybody there is like, 'I was on this reality show; I'm an actor.' It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

I was thrown into the spotlight pretty quickly at UCLA.

I got a lot of praise and attention post 'Kai Po Che' but I was thrown into a big ocean suddenly.

When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.

I don't want to build a reputation for just being able to take long throws.

When you can recognize hot throws and blitzes, that's when they can slow down their blitz and they don't want to blitz you as much because you're getting the ball out.

Celebrities choose fame. Royals have it thrust on them.

Everyone who's recognized me has been very nice, which I'm very grateful for. It's kind of thrust me into this world of being known, which is a good thing and a bad thing.

I like that the hard-core ruffians, the street thugs come up to me and say, 'Man, you killed it with Adele.'

We should always remember that Fox News will stick out like a sore thumb no matter what the other news outlets do, and that has to be recognized as an issue.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.

I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.

I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was... well, pretty Hollywood.