Quotes About Recognition

I was Pippa on 'Home And Away' for nearly a decade.

I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat.

Just to be able to say you're No. 1, you are the best golfer on the planet, just for one day, would be the best thing ever. Knowing that you were the best in the world would be pretty neat.

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

The necessity of defining the enemy also leads to the necessity of defining who we are.

At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, 'Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?'

As the president put the Medal of Honor around my neck, I felt the history and the weight of a nation.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

I've said the Grammys messed up metal because it's not on TV. What I'm saying is when you're in a metal category, it's not televised, and it doesn't move the needle forward for metal artists, and I wish they had more respect for the genre.

If Seattle could put my jersey on top of the Space Needle, they would.

I'm needy, I need approval in everything I do.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

If you go into a negotiating room and are like, 'Well I was on the same card as Conor McGregor, so maybe I should get a little bit more money,' they'll probably just look at you like, 'What? In what universe does that even make sense?' So I don't see how anyone could possibly think it's going to be a trickle-down effect.

Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

Within the black community, I'm definitely a neighborhood celebrity.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

I just wanted to impress the guys in the neighborhood that I grew up with.

I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighborhood and I remember.

Baton Rouge is small, so when somebody like me blowup, who they used to chase around the neighborhood, who was a wild little kid, that affects people.

'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.

My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.