Quotes About Recognition

Just equating my price to one hit song is taking credit away from my lifetime's work.

People say you make your own luck; I don't think that's the case, but maybe you contribute to your luck by recognizing it and taking advantage of it.

I'm not winning any modeling awards, I'm not a Rhodes Scholar, but I genuinely feel that if you're taking time out of your day and your energy to comment on my art, then I got your attention.

I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

I was determined that with perseverance and faith, at some point, someone would say, 'This girl has talent,' and would cast me in something meaningful.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

I don't want my personality to overshadow my talent.

The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.

Talent should always be recognized - no one can keep it; no one owns it.

I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

A lot of people don't realize the skills and talent that I have.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

It's something I've constantly found shocking - all this astounding talent amongst black women that never gets to be seen or heard.

Latinos are the fastest growing minority, and we're obviously not going anywhere. We're extremely loyal as a people, and I think Hollywood is starting to recognize that. It's very rare for a major studio to nationally distribute a film with Latino talent, not only in front of the camera, but also behind the camera.

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.

I'm a proud mainstream musician, but having said that, I do firmly believe there's more to musical talent in India than just Bollywood.

I very much like Christopher Kane. He actually did a work placement with me, and you could spot his talent straight away.

What motivates me is true talent, it's golden when talent acknowledge talent.

If I'm going to be famous, I want to be famous for doing something good - having talent.

I love performing, rapping; I love people recognizing my talent.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.