Quotes About Recognition

The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.

Who's there?

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

NEVER answer the phone to a number I don't recognise. Instead I wait until it's finished ringing and then google the number to try and work out who it is and what they might want.

Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed.

When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.

In this overcrowded, underwhelming world, any gesture, no matter how slight, expressing that one person recognizes another person is a nice thing indeed.

Lo, Elliott was an artist. No crucible of hardship, no spiritual calling. Art was just something he was good at, therefore something he was praised for, therefore something he kept doing.

It is I…Allen…Lavi…" "Is that Krorykins?" "Krory?" "Yes…it is I…open the door. Open the door.

That threshold lying at the entrance to each man's and woman's life, I knew without equivocation now, must be recognized and genuflected before.

I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others

Instead, amoebas with wonderful performance receive the intangible honor of genuine appreciation and praise from their colleagues.

I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.

Connecting your story with a known entity—be it a politician, celebrity, or famous businessperson—acts as a de facto slant. Bottom line: The media want recognizable faces in their pages.

A brand is nothing less than everything everyone thinks of when they see or hear your name.

As William James pointed out, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The only way to get people to do anything is to recognize their importance and thereby make them feel important. Every person's deepest lifelong desire is to be significant and to be recognized.

Be sincere - the surest was to become special in other's eyes is to make them feel special

She introduced herself to me as Ray's wife. I was only mildly surprised to realize that Ray had this pleasant-looking matron for a partner, a little glassy-eyed, tagged by forty years of marriage like a dead deer on a car roof.

We know the minute he's going plastic. Shit, Charlie and I have been watching that ass for forty-odd years; we know when the moneymaker's shaking and when it's being told what to do.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

Lightning does the work; thunder takes the credit.