Quotes About Recognition

Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in

People will know you for whatever they want to know you for.

You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.

The TV provides pictures, therefore creates fame, and that's what makes it seductive to a lot of people. They want to be famous. They want to be recognized. And I've gotten all that out of my system.

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back."

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

You do a couple of superhero things and then, all of a sudden, they want to get you because there may be some name value.

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

I think a lot of people are aware of the things I do, but maybe because of who I am, they don't want to report the good things about Albert Belle.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.

If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

I'm not a star, I hate that word, and I'm an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I'm an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.

Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.