Quotes About Recognition

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.

Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.

There's always sacrifices. My family don't generally say that they're related to me - my sister doesn't say she's my sister - because they don' t want to be judged or lauded based on who I am.

It would be nice to not have to prove myself, and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.

I would love to play a role that is a lead role that people appreciate and a lot of people get to see. I just don't want to have to fight for every role anymore.

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.

A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.

A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it.

I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn't know me.

I keep having these bros come up to me and say, "I used to watch you when I was a fetus," and I just want to kill them.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.