Unearned Recognition Quotes

You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

I hate for people to think that I have only played for West Ham because I am the local lad and people make allowances for me.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.

Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.

What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all want to be famous for no reason.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.

I hate when people call me a star, because I don't consider myself to be a star.

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

It is an honor that I have neither earned nor deserved

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together.

Because of social media, a lot of people think they can be, like, a rapper or a singer or a musician because they can put something on YouTube and it might become a thing because there's - like - YouTube phenomenons and whatnot, you know? It's not like they dedicated years to it or anything. It's annoying.