Quotes About Prestige

If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great.

It's a really big deal to have a star on the Walk of Fame; it feels like an incredible achievement.

Gordon Ramsay, the only chef in London honored with three stars by the 'Guide Michelin,' is not a monster.

What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New York. There are not that many of them.

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

Anytime you are named as an all-star is one thing. But to be named a starter in an all-star game that was definitely a great experience for me and is something I will remember for the rest of my life.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

Show me a team of the stature of Chelsea, Manchester United, Real Madrid, or Barcelona who is not obsessed with winning the Champions League. If they are not, I'd be surprised why they play in it.

To be awarded with an honour of the stature of a Padma Bhushan, which is deemed as one of the three highest civilian awards in our country, is just gratifying.

Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Davos is probably the world's most elite society, but it dresses itself up as a non-elite event. Don't be fooled. You must wear a specially coloured badge, which shrieks your status to others.

I shy away from celebrity status because I don't want to be known as that guy. But I had a chance to partake in the events and the festivities of the Kentucky Derby, and that was a huge honor.

There are moments when you're stepping out of a really nice car on to a red carpet, and you feel inside like, 'This is quite nice,' but I'm never whisked off my feet.

The winner of the game is the one with all the names.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy.

It's an incredible honor to be nominated by the Academy.

I was nominated for a live-action short-film Academy Award in 2003.