Quotes About Recognition

My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon.

Underestimesia: the condition of being chronically underestimated.

To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he's kind of my bodyguard.

Those girl-next-door roles were my bread and butter and I was appreciated for my work.

That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.

People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.

Before 'Panda,' I had a buzz already.

To get an award for something you are having a ball doing is a real buzz.

When Punjabis all over the world admired my work, there was buzz in Bollywood as well.

To me, the Peabody was as big if not bigger than any award, but I do understand an Emmy Award-winning show has a different buzz when it comes to start talking about renewals and things like that. There's a professional something to it that matters.

I've got a big buzz going on because I'm known and put people to sleep.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.

I'd rather be known for my talent, for what I can do in the cage. I'm sure that will come.

I am not walking around looking like Luke Cage does at all.

Every year, I think you earn the right to eat cake on your birthday.

When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'

It's like, when RuPaul calls, I answer.

In fact, I only had a cameo role in 'QH,' but the writer and director sensed my talent and in Season 2 I was given Begum Sahiba's role.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I did.

I moved to L.A., because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.

I'll say that, Bill Camp, from 'The Night Of,' is one of our great actors.