Quotes About Recognition

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.

I don't act to be popular, or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time, and what I look like.

People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

At the end of the day, everyone wants to feel loved, appreciated and respected.

To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

Yo, play me with a handshake. Say "What's up, L.L.? Good Luck." That's all. That's all I want. I don't want you to kiss my feet. That ain't necessary. Just give me respect.

People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

If people really want to find you, they find you.

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

Every artists wants to be applauded

And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.