Uncelebrated Achievements Quotes

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

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.

What's funny about my resume is so much of what I've done has not been seen.

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.

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.

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

I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.

I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.