Quotes About Recognition

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.

It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,'' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.