Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Quotes

I'm not really often recognized - not really. Or if I am, nobody cares enough to come and tell me that they recognize me.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

There are great actors we'll never see just because they haven't had my luck.

I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy in a rubber mask.

I have not been taken seriously as an actor.

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark rimes?

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

Awards that ignore me are losers.

And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?

I'm the guy that no one knows, but everyone's like, "You're that guy in that film thing."

I love any kind of recognition because as an actor I'm very hard on myself sometimes.

Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you're like 'Ah, if the only knew.'

Genius requires an audience.

I guess I just would never be so arrogant as to think that anybody would even recognize me. I didn't even think about it.

I don't mind not having recognition. If it happens, fine, but it doesn't bother me that it's not there.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

The day I leave, you won't know how to pronounce my name. You could care less about me, and I should be dead and buried because there's not one media that will come and remember who Joe Arpaio is. That's the way it is in politics.