Unheralded Accomplishments Quotes

Success cannot be advertised: failure cannot be explained. In the work of intelligence, heroes are undecorated and unsung, often even among their own fraternity.

I want to be remembered. I want to have a legacy. Van Gogh only sold one painting before he died, which would mean that he wasn't famous when he was alive. But in 2017, I know who Van Gogh is.

The last few years haven't been as good so I can fly under the radar, come in and do the best I can and I don't have all these high hopes placed on me.

Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have to stop and think; there's just not that much left.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

I've been in the shadows my whole career.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

My brother is a great actor. Just because he doesn't harp about his achievements, people don't talk about his work.

People talk about players who should get more attention, but things like that have never bothered me. If I just play my game, walk out the back door without anybody seeing me, I'm fine with that.

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.

I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.

It's pretty much a given known fact in the industry that before I was successful, I wrote for other artists.

Future is my brother. He has no idea how big what he does is.