Quotes About Recognition

Women have shown their skills and that's why they have been accepted in the industry. It's through their skill that they have managed to make a mark for themselves and also earned respect.

I need that name in Rashad Evans, a name that UFC and the fans respect. They know his skill set. They know what he can do. You go out there and beat a guy like that, you've proved yourself to the UFC and to the fans.

From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges.

My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!

I've heard that Bon Iver liked my cover of 'Skinny Love.'

I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.

The recognition thing started to happen in 2009 when 'Skins' season three had come out and we were on TV. It used to happen much more when we were in the height of our success, but I never really saw it as a chore or anything like that. It was just quite exciting - you had fans.

After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

When someone shouts 'Skins' at you, its funny the first time. But after a hundred times, you think, 'I do have a name.'

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that.

Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?

They're not chicks. They're ducks.

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.