Quotes About Recognition

Often, organizations don't know how good they have it with a player or coach.

Even before the movie was made, people already thought I was the original Lurch.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

I guess I originally got the bug for performing when I was in choirs and school stuff and all that. I don't know when. I guess I decided to do it because a lot of people said I was good, and I liked the attention.

How Jamie Tartt came to be Jamie Tartt was that he was originally Dani Rojas - but not as we know him now because Cristo Fernandez is Dani Rojas. They saw Cristo Fernandez and went, okay, we're going to make a character and we'll find a name for him.

I'm always honored to see my music and New Orleans Bounce make its way into mainstream culture.

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.

A lot of young Latino actors have said to me, 'Why can't we get an Oscar? Why can't we be nominated?' And the terrible truth is that if you don't get the right parts, you're not going to be. Are you going to get an Oscar nomination for one of those Judd Apatow movies? Not likely, no matter what nationality you are.

I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

If you think about it, I made history. Not only was I the first black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar, I was the first black British person.

Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.