Quotes About Recognition

The entire industry saw 'Pink' and it helped me get more work.

When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.

Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

There's been a few things that have been insane with 'Rather Be', and being nominated for a Grammy is, like, the pinnacle one.

The Grammys are just the pinnacle of music.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

It's hard to pinpoint a 'moment' that validated years of work.

I believe I deserve to be respected as an athlete because I'm a pioneer in this sport.

I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.

The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.

I feel great when people say good things about me. But what's important is that I have to show it on the pitch.

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

That's what the Olympics is about - getting your name on the wall, and that gold medal.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

When people in Vancouver do recognize me, they hide it. I went to a store near my home and I know they're 'Battlestar' fans - they have pictures on the wall! - and I know they know me, but everyone was so smooth and pretended I wasn't there. Most people don't realize how good they are at acting in everyday life.

I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice.

What I immediately recognized about Wall Street in 1983 was that it was a continuation of my career in theater. Wall Street is a big theater, and it's all illusions.

As soon as I go to Wall Street, my customer - all of a sudden, I'm working for people that don't know me. They don't know how much I love what I do.

'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it.

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.'

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.