Quotes About Prestige

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

To win the Champions League and possibly the Euros in the same season would be incredible, a feat achieved by very few.

International Amateur Atheletic Federation had selected me in 1985 and 1986 as one of the best eight athletes in the world.

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Anyone who has the chance to drive for Ferrari will drive for Ferrari.

Ferrari gives you a special feeling.

I am proud to be part of Ferrari's history.

Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.

Cannes is a lot of work, since it's a market festival and a serious festival, and they really work you, understandably.

Most of my awards come from foreign festivals!

Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it's like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those.

Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.

My experience at the White House was invaluable.

Obviously, you want to wear the whites. If someone calls you a Test player, there is no bigger compliment.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

I believe the Champions League has all that magic because it gathers all the best European teams, and that gives you the feeling of trying to be the best. That's why the Champions League has this special kind of emotion.

'The Good Wife' was so unbelievably luxurious to step into.

A Tennessee Squire is an elite group of people.

There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn't have to share the field with other players.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

The IMPAC is a terribly important award.

In the early 1940s the social democratic refugee Franz Neumann argued in his classic Behemoth that a "cartel" of party, industry, army, and bureaucracy ruled Nazi Germany, held together only by "profit, power, prestige, and especially fear."1