Quotes About Acclaim

As long as I'm respected by my peers and coaches, I'm cool.

I've never made an All-Star Game, but I've always had my peers' and coaches' respect around the league.

When you're respected by your peers, that's amazing.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

As a performer, we look for applause.

The critics noticed me as a performer only with 'Dor.'

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

I always get more applause than votes.

After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC.

Joss Whedon is the best man on the planet.

Marty Scurll is fantastic, and I am a big fan of his work.

The President doesn't ring people out of the blue, so you know you've done something well.

I haven't got many awards to boast of.

I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.

Success is for creeps.

But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened, with all the acclaim, before the next job, I'd have found it very difficult to figure out what to do next.

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

'Sugar Cane Alley' had a lot of international success, big success everywhere.

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

It is attention, really, that is the big resource; it is being acknowledged. It is being told you did a great job.

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.