Quotes About Recognition

To photograph is to confer importance.

If you recognize a photograph by me, I'm a failure.

I didn't take that many pictures of The Beatles, but I did photograph them before anybody else knew about them, and that makes me proud. I saw something in them.

People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day, win the lottery and be photographed.

I photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her.

It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there because of my acting rather than who I'm being photographed with.

Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.

When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.

When I go out, I kind of put a hat on and glasses, so I'm kind of just like a photographer going around taking pictures, and people hopefully don't recognize me. But sometimes they do, and then I'll do a photo for them, too.

For many years, I used to run to the opposite direction when I saw photographers.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That's kind of strange.

Attention from the photographers is part of my life and I think the best thing is to learn to deal with it.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs.

There are people who want photographs and autographs when they meet me.

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

On 'Game of Thrones,' I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we'd see photos of what we'd shot online and think, 'My God - people really care.'