Social Recognition Quotes

Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

I think the problem for the future generations is a lot of people ain't takin' the time to look for them and give them their voice, so therefore for their voice to be heard, they gotta bang more pots on the ceiling, so to speak; they gotta do crazy things just to get recognized. I just feel that whenever you don't give a generation some kind of voice, then expect side effects.

I have this thing. I've always been uncomfortable going to any party where people don't understand why I'm there. One of the best things about partaking in a show like this is, when I show up to events and parties now, they know me. I don't have to hear, 'Oh, you're an actor? Have I seen you in anything?' anymore. I used to have to start listing things off of my resume'. It's really nice not to have to do that anymore.

They that know one another salute a farre off.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

I was pretty familiar with TikTok: I always thought its videos would be ironically hilarious. When I became a trending topic on there, it was a crazy moment for me. A lot of people will try to downplay it, but I saw it as something bigger.

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

For a good man fame is always a problem.

Making my family, friends, and close peers proud of me is the most important thing.

Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don't say anything and you don't know they know who you are.

Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.

Everyone wears a sign that says "Make me feel important

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

Going into a new school, you don't want to be the new kid and be quiet and shy. You want to stand out. You want people to know who you are in that school. I think that also helped me growing up. I always wanted people to know me throughout the school.

Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.

People who other people value get job offers, they get opportunities, and they get encouragement all because they are valued.

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.