Quotes About Recognition

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

Take time to thank everyone who has helped you along the way.

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.

It tickles me, my daughter said that to me. She said, "Mommie, why is it that every time they say your name they put your age right behind it?"

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last time I was here."

Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

I started going to castings a few years ago when people didn't know who I was. People forget about [that time] because they've seen my career - the path that it's had in the last couple years.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.

Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.