Quotes About Recognition

The funny thing that still cracks me up is when you get a grown man coming up to you shaking asking for a picture. I'm like 'Dude, you know I'm a scrub, right?'

The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.

I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.

The thing that's caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - that's something I really haven't grasped the whole entirety of yet.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'

If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

My kids are always like, 'Why do people always want to take pictures with you?' and I'm like, 'Because I'm your Dada, and you're my daughter. That's why.' It's definitely mostly because of 'Game of Thrones.'

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.

The fan mail I get every day is incredible. It piles through the door from not just Britain but everywhere. It is so great to have that support behind me - everyone says I am an inspiration. It is great.

I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.

I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.

I did a CNN pilot but they decided I wasn't Anthony Bourdain.

I feel like network didn't want me. I was doing all these pilots, and it never worked out. I was like, network doesn't like me. I'm going to go to cable where I'm appreciated. Then it was funny; I think I had to go to cable for network to appreciate me.

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

'Pretty In Pink' was a huge hit for me.

When I walk around on the street and someone comes up to me, I have just as many full-grown men with large beards in Slipknot shirts saying he likes my band as much as I do girls with bright pink hair.

I feel after 'Pink' my time has come.