Long-Term Recognition Quotes

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want people to just remember me for one thing.

Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day. I've come to know when I've got a good one, although sometimes it takes the world awhile to catch up with me...If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it.

When you're caught up in your career, you're not thinking about becoming a legend one day or how, 25 years from now, you'll be immortalized in something or that you might be going into the Hall of Fame.

You're not famous unless people's mothers know who you are. Everybody else, you think you're famous, but you're just hot, and heat cools off.

A lot of celebrities are afraid of being out of sight, out of mind. I'm the complete opposite.

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

I don't want to just have 15 minutes of fame. I want it to last.

It's really easy to go viral, but I think it's really hard then to have a career.

I want people to talk about me in five, 10 years, 20 years, that I was one of the best female MMA fighters, that I was one of the best UFC champions in the world back in the day. This is what I want.