Quotes About Recognition

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.

Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

It's always disconcerting when somebody comes over to you on the bus and says, 'I know who you are.'

It's not every day you see a bus with your own face on it.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

I don't know Jeb Bush. I've never met him.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

I was a businessman for a long time before I was a celebrity.

I'm a businesswoman, and Ms. is an appropriate form of address.

When someone recognises you or wants an interview, you think, 'You know, maybe I've done something good. Maybe I have a good result.' So if you see it in that way, it becomes a lot easier, and you realise that, actually, you're there and you've succeeded because of the media, because if it wasn't for them, no one in the world would know us.

I never had a proper modeling career. It was not something I succeeded in. Once I started acting, that's when the fashion world kind of embraced me.

Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian artist enters the U.S. market, I would like him to think, 'There was an artist called Rain who succeeded in the U.S. market.' This is my dream.

I don't need awards to show me how successful I am or to prove to me that I'm doing a good thing and that I'm succeeding.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

I think the biggest thing is that success is not measured by whether or not you're on 'CBS This Morning' or whether or not you make the local news station.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.