Quotes About Acknowledgment

Prior to the 'Chappelle's Show,' you know, no one would even listen to me, in the frame of, 'Oh, he is trying to be funny.'

I'm very appreciative and humbled by the success of 'Prison Break.'

I'm well aware of my privilege.

You want to find the balance of acknowledging privilege and acknowledging the disadvantages that you have.

I never really realized how privileged I was in the way I grew up.

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.

I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never won any kind of prize.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the Nobel prizes.

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

After turning pro, I was feeling a lot of respect to everybody actually, especially top players.

The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don't acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.

You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

All too often, when people think about art in the U.K., they think London. There's some really great work being produced outside of the capital city and I think it is important to stop and acknowledge that.

It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

I feel lucky, and I have to thank my writers, directors, and producers for giving me great parts to play on screen.

When I entered the profession, I didn't make a big deal of it. People didn't really know I was my parents' son.

Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.

It went from 'I was a nobody on the street, just another person.' It turned into something completely different. People were coming up to me, they knew who I was us, requesting pictures.

I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.

If it is written for me to lose, I'll lose with dignity and give credit.