Quotes About Recognition

The thing about a small town is that there are people who just remember me as a musician, as a high school football player.

I'm just a kid from a small town. Not many people make it from there. Shout out to Whitnall.

I live in a small town so I get recognised a lot which is weird.

A lot of actors get the leading role after doing a bunch of smaller things and people get to know them. I came out of nowhere.

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.

That really sets great directors apart from good directors: their ability to make you feel like you matter, even if your part is much smaller. That's one thing I found with most of the great directors I worked with: They all have that skill. Not everyone takes the time.

What has helped me is my success in commercial cinema. It has given me a platform for others to cast me in their films. If I did not have the commercial success, then I wouldn't be able to do the smaller films.

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.

Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers.

It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces.

I've been working with smart people who are the best at what they do and who fight to make the best-quality stuff. I'm very fortunate that these people have seen whatever they needed to see in me.

I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.

There were some miles-better bands than us. We were conscious that we weren't the best or the smartest, but we certainly knew how to work the press.

Android is the kind of runaway smash hit that techies spend their careers dreaming about.

I'd say the best thing the Violators and I have done is to dominate the U.S. with an arsenal of smash hits.

The finances of a smash hit do not affect the actors in any way shape or form, it's the attention that comes with it. If it's a financial hit, then a lot of people are seeing it.

Anthony Joshua has smashed it, he's one of the biggest sportsmen in the world but when you talk about boxing careers I've done just as well as him.

I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'