Quotes About Recognition

When you think about the Knicks, you associate Patrick Ewing with the Knicks, you associate Walt Frazier with the Knicks. If I do all the right things and perform up to my capabilities, I hope you associate Larry Johnson with the Knicks someday, too.

I'm trying to leave a legacy, man. I'm trying to get a gold jacket someday. That's my mindset.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

It's nice to see a friendly face or have someone know your name.

It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.

I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.

How am I overrated if I've never gone to the Pro Bowl? To be overrated, you have to be someplace you shouldn't be. I don't see that.

It's always a good feeling to be recognized for something.

The whole world may tell you how beautiful you are but there is that one person whose compliment will make you feel like a million bucks!

You were the only blessing I think, I didn't deserve at first place.

Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in life and take things for granted.

Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love

I know that you know that I'm awesome, and that you know that I know that you're awesome!

If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.