Quotes About Recognition

I've got friends all around the world, but it still never ceases to amaze me when I come to a place on the other side of the planet that I've always imagined going to, and to get there and be meeting people all over on the street who know me - it's very exciting and humbling.

Getting to be on DVD is a huge step for me as an actor, this isn't the world that I imagined for myself.

I've never considered myself an actor; I get much more immediate satisfaction singing. If you sing good, people clap. On television, you never know whether you've done well or not.

People see me, and they think they went to college with me; there's no immediate identification.

Well, 50 was a made man before I met him. So that alone - you walk into a room, and there's an immediate respect.

Nothing ages you more immediately than being called 'Mrs.'

My first Hindi film as a leading man was Mahesh Bhatt's 'Saaransh,' which immediately established me as someone who knows the craft.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

I want to present the immigrant community in more of a real light.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

I feel like I know a lot of people. But I must've made an impact on them, for them to want to know me, too.

Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

When someone is complimenting you, they are sharing how your actions or behaviors impacted them. They are not asking if you agree.

I never expected to be anybody important.

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a writer which I don't think even Hollywood does.

With an award like the Asian Film Awards, we've sent a message saying that 'Asian Cinema is here, it matters, and more importantly, we are all part of the same fraternity!' The AFA is truly, then, an award for Asia, by Asia.

I always knew I was an artist, and even more importantly, a star.

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.