Quotes About Recognition

It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.

I've always been one foot in, one foot out of this game because I'm not comfortable with being on the pedestal or the poster. That's just not who I am. I'm more like the grunt. I want to be the guy behind the guy.

I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.

It feels good to be featured in a film poster. I didn't have it in the beginning of my career.

I can't think of anything better than being considered a poster girl for intelligent women.

I am still a normal kid, but when I'm walking on the street, there will be people who ask me to sign a poster or take a picture with them.

A lot of people that I work with now call me Netflix's poster boy and that makes me so happy as who doesn't want to be.

I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be on posters. I want to be good.

You just go from sort of normal life - nobody knowing your name and what you look like - to it being a matter of two months or something and there are people making posters and holding your name up and camping outside your house and really crazy stuff.

I truly did deal with postpartum depression and no one pointed it out to me, and when you are in it you don't know. I figured it out later on my own.

I busted my bird for 60 years in the business, but my grandkids only know me as Mr. Potato Head.

My grandchildren just know me now as Mr. Potato Head.

I never heard anything about 'potatoes' or 'kanaken' during my time in the national team. However I have been called 'potato,' too.

All I wanted was for people to see the potential in us.

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

Celebrity culture is... it's not something that I'm attracted to. I guess I don't think of myself in that way, but potentially other people do. I feel I'm at the far periphery of that.

For me, I feel like every time I go out there, I have to prove something, because whether it's fans or the fighters I'm going to fight potentially or am scheduled to fight, there's always an excuse of why I won.

It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.

I don't like when people say I act good for my age. Who would have said that to Daniel Radcliffe or Emma Watson when they were filming 'Harry Potter?'

If I had a pound for every time I heard Ollie Watkins' name I could buy half of London!

Saw the best boxer, pound for pound: Roy Jones. Not a lot of hype, though.

Looking back now, thinking about that moment in the lights, with my heart pounding, Oscar in my hand, all I can say is I am grateful and humbled - still to this day. Next to marrying my husband and the birth of my children, it is one of the best days ever.

I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.