Quotes About Recognition

When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.

The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read science fiction magazines will recognize your byline on a novel.

It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is not really well-known in the West.

When you score 30 goals in a season, you can expect that the following year there will be a little bit more pressure and attention on you.

I was, in my first season, second top scorer, which is something people forget.

Scores of little girls are going to run into school the following day and say, 'Did you see Fran Kirby last night?' That for me is as important as winning the game.

I think it comes with making all the big plays and scoring all these touchdowns. It brings a lot of attention on yourself.

People often write to me, addressing the envelope, 'Stephen Hendry, Snooker Player' or 'Stephen Hendry, Scotland,' and it reaches me.

When Armaan sang his first song for Vishal Dadlani, he didn't know that they were making Daboo Malik's son sing. He went inside the studio when he was 10-11, sang a scratch and it went on to be part of 'Bhoothnath.' He didn't get the opportunity because he was so and so's kid.

I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.

Yeah, I'm walking through the airport, I'm walking through the street, I'm driving in my car, people just start screaming at me - 'YEEEAAAHHH!'

It is nice to be validated by audiences and have people come up to you after a screening and tell you that they loved the movie. It never gets old.

'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career.

From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

Ain't nobody more famous than me. I am my own hero and everything else. If you are a SEAL you can say that.

People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.

Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that's when I decided to become a music artist.

It all started when I was 11 months old, singing a song by Jodeci in the back seat of the car. My mother turned around and said, 'Who is that?' When she saw it was me, she said, 'I think we have a singer on our hands.'

I want to know that I am putting 30,000 individuals in seats in arenas. That's my goal.

People in Seattle and Tacoma know who I am as a person, and I don't think I am a character risk or have a character issue at all.

It took a while before I could sit across the table with Mark and not, every three seconds, think, 'I'm talking to Luke Skywalker.'

I've never had a problem in a male-dominated sector. Results speak for themselves.

I don't feel secure as an actor. I want to do more films and get accepted by masses.