Quotes About Recognition

You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.

Toilets are the best place for awards.

If your catchphrase has appeared in men's toilets, then you know you've made it!

I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.

For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.

I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I the token woman on this list? Because I'll take it.'

That's what I'm tryin' to achieve. I want to be a heavyweight in this game, and I'm tryin' to get the big money. By the same token, the title 'Big Money Heavyweight' applies to everybody in the world. That's what everybody's tryin' to achieve.

I'm not just a token Muslim.

It really feels special to know that 'Irudhi Suttru' has been selected to be screened at Tokyo Film Festival. I see this honor as an impetus to continue doing my good work.

I'm always opening magazines and seeing pictures of her in advertisements. Or I'll be in a hotel room in Tokyo and there she will be, on the television. Or I'll be walking through an airport or driving along a freeway and there she will be on a billboard.

I'm very lucky with the people that recognise me - it's at a very tolerable level. I don't think I could handle the level of recognition which David Beckham has.

Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.

Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.

She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.

I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind.

Still now I send letters into space Hoping that some mailman somewhere will track you down And recognise you from the descriptions in my poems That he will place the stack of them in your hands and tell you, There is a girl who still writes you, she doesn't know how not to

You've got steel in you, Stahlia; that's why you recognize it in her.

A fuller vision comes from our ability to recognize the fallibility in our current and past forms of sight.

Those whose every act is praised are handicapped by adoration. They grow stunted, shrivel up, lose the impulse to continue. Praise can kill.

I go to another room, hoping someone will notice me, but I stay silent out of loyalty or fear.

I thought you said he was your twin?" "Under that hair and beard, he is.

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.