Words matter. These are the best Autograph Quotes from famous people such as Michael Caine, Joe Elliott, Timothy F. Cahill, Katie Ledecky, Bill Goldberg, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You’d get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart’s ‘The Caine Mutiny,’ which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I’d gotten my first TV job.
A fan would get an autograph and that was that. If we didn’t tour again for five years, we wouldn’t remember them.
If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that’s a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.
When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I’m at the Olympics with him, and it’s like: ‘Woah.’
Any time someone stops me in the street and asks me for an autograph, pro wrestling gave me that.
When I’m on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn’t want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
I don’t ever want to be that guy who gets too big to take time to sign an autograph or take a picture, because I just know, without those fans, I’m nobody. A lot of people forget that fact when they make it.
I don’t even think my children are aware of what I’ve done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, ‘You must watch ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ You know, that’s like all I’ve done to them.
I don’t sign autographs when I’m out for a meal or out with my kids. I think that’s rude and disrespectful. I would never ask anyone for an autograph while they were eating dinner; that’s what I was taught by my parents.
I was shocked when four Arlington girls at a track meet this spring asked me for my autograph. I told them, ‘Don’t think I’m dumb for asking this, but are you serious?’
I don’t mind autograph hunters when I go down the fish and chip shop. As long as I get my chips.
I tell the person I won’t take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they’re really seeking.
I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don’t have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that’s a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.
Mickey Rourke’s character in ‘The Wrestler’ – that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.
I signed my first autograph when I was 11.
Anytime somebody shares a personal story with me during autograph signings and someone comes up to me and shakes my hand and says thank you and I’m just like, wow. The fact that I can have an influence over somebody; it is heartwarming, it is the goal.
As a kid, I used to practice my signature, working on the way I wanted to sign my autograph.
I tell the person I won’t take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they’re really seeking.
I respond to every email. I sign every autograph for every person.
Somebody wanted me to autograph her breast and I kindly refused. She was in college. I thought maybe I shouldn’t do that.
Pretty good, you know it’s nice when you get people coming up to you saying ‘Can I have a photo or an autograph’; it’s a compliment, I think.
It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won’t give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.
In fairness, 95 per cent of football fans are wonderful. A picture or an autograph is no problem for them.
My dad was always genuine with the fans and said, ‘You must appreciate every single one of them,’ and I always did. I always tried to make time for every autograph or every picture. What’s an autograph? It’s the simplest thing in the world.
No, I don’t autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
You know how kids will wait outside after a gig and try to get an autograph from the band? I would do that, but when I found the guitar player, I would say, ‘What advice can you give me?’ And a lot of my heroes would say, ‘Have your own style.’ I always kept that in my head.
It’s weird: people used to want your autograph; now what they want to do is to take your photograph with an iPhone. And sometimes they’ll pop their arm around you to hold their iPhone; they’re shaking when they take it.
It’s not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I’ve got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can’t take them out on a date. It’s not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.
You should never, ever walk by anyone no matter how young or old they are, without stopping and smiling and shaking their hand and taking a picture or signing an autograph.
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we’ll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there’s more!
It’s nice when people want your autograph, but it’s a little strange because I never expected it.
It’s incredible when I’m out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I have to give them more than just Kato Kaelin.
Oh, the most fun thing I’ve ever been asked to autograph was breasts.
The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who’ve put me here today, and you can’t afford to forget that.
I mean, autographs are so funny. I don’t think it’s good to encourage that sort of thing. Why do people want to have an autograph? What does it do for you?
Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to ‘file their story’.
To be honest, I still feel like I haven’t scratched the surface of where I want to be. If someone asked me for an autograph, I’d be like, ‘Me? I haven’t done anything yet !’ I have much more to offer the world.
It was surprising for me to get out of town and have little kids ask for my autograph.
In college, I was up under this microscope everywhere I went. I couldn’t go to class without somebody stalking me or asking me for something, an autograph or a picture.
If someone comes up to me and asks for an autograph or picture, who am I to say no?
I don’t like asking for an autograph, but I would like to take a picture with Jessica Simpson because I love her style!
It’s rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole ‘celebrity’ life and all that.
In college, I was up under this microscope everywhere I went. I couldn’t go to class without somebody stalking me or asking me for something, an autograph or a picture.
I remember, as a kid, when any woman/girl came close to my dad to get his autograph, I would throw a complete tantrum – yell shout and sometimes even fight!
One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy’s restroom and she wasn’t embarrassed at all.
It’s got difficult for me to walk down the street without people stopping me to ask for an autograph or to talk to me about boxing.
In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback.
‘Twilight’ has been a great opportunity, and it’s been great fun. Hey, if I’m 50, and someone still wants an autograph for ‘Twilight,’ OK, cool.
Part of me goes back to being 8 years old and going on the train 45 minutes to wait at a bank to get Ernie Banks’ autograph. Or when I was a ball boy, becoming best buddies with some of the undrafted or late-drafted guys, them becoming like our big brothers, and then the pain of cut day and watching them get cut.
I was at an autograph show, and there were a lot of people from TNA there doing meet and greets. One of the girls from TNA there asked me why I hadn’t joined yet and I said I’d tried and it didn’t work out. She asked me to give her a video and pictures, and a few days later I got asked to do a tryout.
The same fans that want to rip you up are the same fans that want to talk you up and want your autograph.
The only autograph I ever got, which I do not have anymore, was Matthew Fox when he was on ‘Party Of Five.’ I was in high school, and he came to our local amusement park, and I stood in line and got an autograph.
