Fame Recognition Quotes

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I live in New York, where people don't tend to go up to actors as much.

We've gone from venues that hold 500 up to 3,000 on our own, so I guess we're not entirely unknown. But there is a difference between a few thousand people and 20,000.

I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

People recognise me when I'm holiday on the beach.

I still think it's mind-blowing when famous people know who I am.

Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.

I'm proud of 'Mission: Impossible.' It made me famous beyond my wildest dreams.

I've had bad experiences on red carpets where people didn't know who I was and were like, 'Get out of the way!' It's so embarrassing to have someone scream at you like you're not worth anything when you were invited there.

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.

I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

All over the world I'm known. Whenever I go out on the street people come up to me and say... 'Hi, Beave,' and that doesn't bother me at all. It's something that I embrace.

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.

It would mean a lot to me to get into the Hall of Fame, to be grouped with some of the greatest players in history.

I want to fight the top guys in the world. Guys who have names. Guys who I don't mind trying to make a mark off of me by them trying to win, which, they're gonna become losers.

I went from a nobody to a somebody.

If Ed Sheeran covered my songs, I would die. That would be unbelievable.

It's difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognise you from your work or just because you're 6 ft. 3 in. and have the eyebrows of Satan. It's difficult to distinguish between the two.

Its pretty humbling, because I go back to the places where I used to play for 13 people, and now there's 1,500.

Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved.

Most people know who I am. Then I get the people who don't know who I am and just want to take a picture with a guy with muscles. I get more people that know me than anything.