Quotes About Recognition

The Ballon d'Or? It's up to the journalists to vote. I do not go to bed every night thinking about it. I just try to do my best and score as many goals as possible.

The long journey I've taken from where I started, and to end up at the Governors Awards as a governor - it was an emotional and powerful moment for me.

One of the great joys of my life post-'Friends' has been being approached by Asian women who have told me how much it meant to see an Asian face on their TV screen when they were growing up.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

For me, at the end of the day, I want to be judged for my work, not for what I've been through and past experiences, necessarily.

As the first of anything, you're going to be judged. If you accept the good, you have to accept the bad.

To people who don't take women's cricket seriously, I'd say: just watch a game first, and then make your judgement.

I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.

Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.

As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.

It was an honor to work with Julia Michaels.

I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - 'Creature from the Black Lagoon.'

Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about.

I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.

When I was a kid, my dream was to be an actress and to be able to jump from one world to another, to disappear into roles, that people wouldn't recognize me from one movie to another. So I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to live that dream.

I usually played out and out heavies. No one else 'saw' me in any other role. No one else had ever believed I could be anything but a heavy. It was a heavy in a picture with Clara Kimball Young that June Mathis saw me and decided to cast me as Julio. 'There is the man for Julio,' she said, 'He, and no one other.'

June. June Mathis. No, no one else, ever. She gave me my start. She first, of all people, believed in me.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

Once my junior year finished at Florida State, I won the Rhodes Scholarship and I was also projected as a second-round draft pick.

I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.

I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.'

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.