Bruce Beresford Quotes

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

I'm sorely disappointed that girls don't recognise me in a normal tee and jeans.

I'm always going to be overlooked. That's just how it is. That's how the league is.

You watch award shows, and not only are you not nominated, but you're not a presenter and haven't been invited to any of the parties.

I think the whole boxing world was sleeping on me. They were sleeping on me hard.

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.

Now, see," Wes said, nodding at my plate, "this is going to blow your mind." I looked at him. "It's a waffle, not the second coming.

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

Some people see me as someone who makes other people look bad... I often get a feeling most people don't know who I am, or have a clue, and I live with that. I don't try to prove anything by talking.

I was never in the top category of anything. I was never on people's lists. I was never the potential anything!

I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me.

I never get recognized. Most of the time, when people think they know me, they believe I'm a member of their family. And that's the way I like it. That's just fine.

I guess my stuff needs to grow on people. Too bad! That seems to happen with all of it.

I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.

Most of the time, I don't want to use anti-climatic, but sometimes you go out there thinking this is going to be the worst thing you've ever gotten yourself into, and then you get back to base and think, 'Wow, that wasn't anything like I expected.'

I'm very, very used to feeling anonymous, you know?

Hosting is a thankless job.

I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

Back home, no one looks at me as a star. At least I know my mother doesn't.

I like to lay low. I like to hang back. I like to be the person that's not really recognized.

I'm not going to shed a tear for not being liked.

Everywhere I've gone, basketball-wise, I've been the underdog and underrated guy.

I'd rather be someone that's underrated than overrated.

If no one hears you, and no one listens to you, it doesn't matter how good you are because no one cares about you.

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.