Quotes About Recognition

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

I feel like the Knicks drafted me because they knew what I could do.

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

Once I won the roles in 'Spender' and 'First Knight' it was much easier for everyone, me included, to get their heads around the idea of me being an actor.

The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting.

A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would be more elegant.

Ronnie Barker was a man whom I thought more deserving of a knighthood than me.

I know what my identity is.

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community.

I can't imagine being in an All-Star Game, knowing that you're among some of the best of the best.

I was big enough, strong enough, knowledgeable enough, to have a successful career without being the top top guy.

I never knew you could be so known from your success.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

In 'The Goods,' I'm Ed Helms' dad, and I was known all those years as Kirk Cameron's father, and now I'm known as Robin Thicke's father, so I find myself playing myself a lot and, frankly, living up to expectations of what the public's image of me is.

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

I would like to be known as a great leader, not as a great woman leader.

When you are known, you do have people who love you very much and also those who hate you for what you are.

Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

Light knows when you're looking at it.