Quotes About Recognition

In my previous profession, when I was a producer, scriptwriter and actor, I wanted to get an Oscar, I wanted to be popular in the U.S.A.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

If you'd asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock star. Especially when I was six and 16, because I thought that if I was a known guitar player in a known band, only cute girls would talk to me.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn't thinking about the actual dollar amount. I just wanted to make a great film that people responded to. That's always a good ambition because you'll never totally hit it.

Wanting attention is genderless. It's human.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

And I hate to bring this up because I'm a 47-year-old man, but I think I was always wanting my dad's approval. We knew he loved us, but he was a different generation.

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

I'm not really wanting to be famous.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.

I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.