Margaret Mahy Quotes

I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

When I first started the biggest thing I wanted was for the opposition to acknowledge me.

I want to be given my credit and want to be given my respect.

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark rimes?

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

I want to be liked... No, I want to be more than just liked... I want people to say, "that Charlie Brown is a great guy!" And when people are at parties, I want them to look for me, and when I finally arrive, I want them to say, "here comes good ol' Charlie Brown... Now everything will be all right!" I want to be a special person... I want to be needed... It's kind of hard to explain... Do you understand? I mean, do you know what I'm talking about?" "Sure, I understand perfectly..." "Well?" "Forget it! Five cents, please!

Guys want to be respected and acknowledged. They want to feel what they contributed matters.

All human beings hunger for appreciation.

I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person's neck that says 'Make me feel important.

I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.

When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought. It encourages our business to be competitive in absolutely the wrong way. We're not sportsmen; we're not trying to come in first.

Everyone wears a sign that says "Make me feel important

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.

It makes me think about how you hear these young people say, "I see you, man." Or even if you go and watch some basketball game over the summer and the announcer goes, "I see you," and you see that player smile. You know what I mean? That thing of just being recognized, especially when you do a little subtle thing. I don't know.

We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.

Our praises are our wages.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.