Quotes About Recognition

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.'

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

There are five stages to an actor's career: who is Herschel Bernardi? get me Herschel Bernardi; get me a Herschel Bernardi type; get me a young Herschel Bernardi; and who is Herschel Bernardi?

Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is, rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be Somebody.

When someone does something well, applaud I You will make two people happy.

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping, but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman!