Quotes About Recognition

When Kehlani brought me out onstage, I really enjoyed that. I was just appreciative for her to think of me and bring me out woman to woman, introducing me to a whole new audience to me. It was just showing that I was appreciated for what I'm doing, that some people mess with me, and I'm all over the place.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

Every time I go onstage, it's a little less 'Chris Rock's brother.'

It's definitely a high when you walk onstage and everybody starts applauding before you even say anything.

We put so much of ourselves onstage and we work so hard, that I never get tired of people telling me 'you're awesome.'

I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.

Coming onto the Jordan Brand absolutely gives more attention to women's basketball and basketball in general.

I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu.

When genocide is committed, it must be seen. People must look at it with open eyes, not minimize its impact.

Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me.

'Breaking Bad' has definitely opened many, many doors for me.

'Dancing With the Stars' really opened a lot of doors for me, and I'm so grateful for that.

Robert Whittaker has really opened eyes, look what he's doing.

I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me.

I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form... I'm sure of it.

I definitely think it opened doors for me and what was so fantastic about 'Downton' being showed over in the States, was that it helped get me noticed.

'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S.

Jennifer Lopez, she opened so many doors for Latinas such as myself.

McSteamy's been really good to me. He's opened a lot of doors.

I feel like it's social media that's opened that door. We're able to accumulate and generate our own fan base. Once we do that and put our own work in, labels take notice that we have our own following.

I am glad the world opened their eyes to female Japanese stars. I think people for so long paid attention to Mexico, Canada, Australia and England and never Japan.

Some aspects of the fame are annoying, but at the end of the day it's something we're most grateful for. It's certainly opened the door to a whole new batch of opportunities.

When I started out playing live, it was different. I felt good about it. Nobody knew who I was. I just opened for so-and-so. Now, I'm playing to people who are coming out to see the band. There's too much attention on the band and me.