Barry Mann Quotes

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

It's awesome when people even notice that I'm an actor.

I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.

I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

I wanted to make a name for myself.

OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

I knew that someday I would be discovered.

Being discovered by an audience is an incredibly difficult thing.

You never know what ultimately will give traction to being a star.

I realize I lack popular recognition.

I want to show people that I can be a household name.

I want to be as big as I can be. I want to be one of the biggest artists. I want to be remembered like, 'He is crazy. He is phenomenal.' I just want to be one of the biggest.

I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.

You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called ''Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.