Quotes About Recognition

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

Is there anything in life more exhilarating than having 15,000 people absolutely ecstatic to be seeing your human form?

But the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. And America came along as the first country to end it within 150 years. And we get no credit for that.

Human nature being what it is, people don't want to acknowledge that a problem exists when they know they have 35 other problems to deal with.

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.

I've come to learn it's a luxury to be a sort of blue collar celebrity in Canada. It makes you more humble.

They say that being humble leaves you out of the record books. I want to be in the record books.

I told my mom I went gold, and she didn't know what that meant, and I was immediately humbled.

For me, I just want to continue to win and compete, so at the end of the day, whatever accolades or categories or lists that I make, it's special and humbling.

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.

To have a role written for you by somebody who is a the top of his game is something that is very humbling.

I get stopped at the airports by just everyday people that are not even fans of the MMA and they say how they have seen me fight. Its very humbling and also rewarding.

It's humbling when people sing back to you!

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.

A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer.

Someone enjoys your batting, and someone, your humour. Since I'm not batting any longer, I can at least say some words, so people enjoy and give me compliments, too.

Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?

I wish actors got more credit for humour.

When I was in high school, I wrote a play that I sent off to a competition that took second place. I got a check for a hundred dollars. I never cashed it, because obviously it was worth way more than a hundred dollars.

Writing is like shouting into the world. So when someone shouts back, it's a really big deal. To have people who read hundreds and hundreds of books a year say, 'Hey, we thought this was really great,' that's a huge self-esteem boost.

It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us.

To know that you will be in the International Sports Hall of Fame and that people for hundreds of years will know who you are and what you did, it means everything.