Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
I feel like whenever I do a movie, people think, 'Well, that's good, but that's probably the best he'll do.' I sort of bang and bang and kick in a door, and people say, 'Now a million doors will open for you.' And they don't.
So few people recognize me, I can do what anyone does.
We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'
My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.
You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.
When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
I sleep till one, and I'm always surprised when someone in blue rinse on a talk show says, 'You're a genius, Mr. Newley, you do so many things.' Tony Newley never realized his potential, did the things he should have done.
I don't know if there's anything sadder than an actor who hasn't made a good picture, and at least I got a few good ones that will stand the test of time. I feel very fortunate about that.
Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S.
I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.
I feel like the second child feels like they have to do everything faster.
No one ever talks about the good in me; they just say that I'm spoiled.
I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
I don't really like too much credit. I know nobody's going to believe this, but I'd rather be able to score goals and nobody saw or even spoke about it. That would be just about the perfect world for me.
If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.
I don't win anything in life, you know what I mean? I was, like, the awkward kid who didn't go to prom, but I did - nobody noticed, though.
I'm incredibly ambitious, but I feel I've got a fantastic career, and I love the anonymity. I love that no one knows who I am.
I don't feel like what I've done are 'accomplishments.'
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.
If you want a good life, don't succeed at anything too early or too well. And don't choose a profession that attracts money or attention. The minute people want to see you doing what you do, you're finished.
There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.
