Quotes About Recognition

I don't usually say 'working mom' because I think all moms are working moms. I feel like that diminishes moms. People should say 'working dad' as opposed to working moms.

When you're actually talented, and you have something to offer, people start to look at you for you as opposed to who you're the offspring of. I feel like a lot of actors, artists, or musicians who come from famous fathers or mothers all deal with the same thing.

I would love to see all agencies connect to models more for who they are and can be as opposed to what they've done.

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

When I first started the biggest thing I wanted was for the opposition to acknowledge me.

Getting respect from the opposition is a nice thing.

Opposition fans try to get under my skin by singing, 'You'll never be your father' - and they are quite right, I never will be as good as him. But I would still love to make a name for myself, aim to play at the highest level possible, and prove that sons who follow their dads into the same business need not walk in their shadows.

I got the famous Oprah hug!

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.

You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life.

I would love to be on Oprah or Larry King.

I remember as a little kid watching the Opry from the nosebleeds, so to stand onstage and be invited to be a member was really, really cool.

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

I don't quite think I'm big enough to deserve an orchestra.

It can be a real blow to our egos when we feel as if our hard-earned degrees don't matter as much as our ability to get the morning coffee orders right.

Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'

PR only works for big names, because they've already achieved something. If you're talking about an ordinary person, what would your PR machinery do where there's no product in the machine?

I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person.

I began working in Gujarati movies and I got noticed by many in Bollywood. It has been organic growth.

When you're independent and not attached to a major media organisation, they just look at you as if to say, 'Who are you again?'

My university organised a casting call for a film and I won the role. I played a character who was dying of cancer. I remember in the middle of shooting going, 'Oh my God! Why did I decide to do this?' But people noticed me in it and I started getting invited to castings.

They couldn't sign me until after I graduated, but right after graduation day, I had nine different organizations there wanting to sign me.