Quotes About Recognition

But there comes a landing point, where you finally get to a stage where you have something to hang your hat on. Then your family see that this is definitely happening and you're making a success of it.

Not all the actors get a chance to leave a landmark.

Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.

Actually, nobody has ever given me an award, and also, it's not really important in my life. I go to these award shows for meeting my friends.

I can walk into meetings now and ask for equal pay, and the people will listen to me. They may not give it to me, but I will be listened to. That's huge.

When someone meets me it's 'Oh, you're the flag-bearer guy!'

I do wish everyone would call me Leo. It's not that I don't like Melissa. But the more I hear it called out, the worse it sounds.

Beyonce did an incredible job of differentiating the sound of Destiny's Child in her songs. When you hear Destiny's Child, you know it based on the harmonies and the melodies.

I was a homecoming king in high school! I was involved. I was a good member of the community, I thought.

I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.

I don't really care much about being a meme. That's not what I want to be known for, as being a meme from 2016. That's not what I'm here for.

Sometimes memorable music doesn't necessarily have to be a hit.

A memorable moment was when I got inducted into the hall of fame in 2009.

While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.

Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this part. They may never become huge stars, but will always, in memory, stay respected actors.

We can't ask the men and women of this country to go do things for us and then, when they get home, forget about them. It's not part of the deal.

Canadians know me so well - I am part of Canada's collective memory - and my fame would get people through the door who would not otherwise be interesting in talking about mental health.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

You cannot mention Harlem Heat without mentioning Sherri Martel at the same time.