Quotes About Recognition

I'll turn on the TV or look at a magazine, and it's like, 'Who is this person?' And you find out they are from '16 and Pregnant,' and I'm like, 'Really? They're celebrities now?' You read about them on the news having fights and breakups, and I think, 'Well, of course.'

The thing that I hate the most is when people have prejudice - when they see me as the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini and not as Alessandra. That, really, I don't like. I didn't know my grandfather. I am me.

If your work is really successful, it should attract the audience to you beyond just the premier.

I've got a lot of respect for Claude Puel because he brought me to Leicester and to the Premier League and played me in most of the games. I have a lot of respect on that front.

I've shown people what I can do and want to establish myself as a Premier League player.

The kudos and hierarchy of playing in the Premier League for a footballer is huge.

There aren't many Asian players in Europe or the Premier League, so that's more attention for me.

I came to Watford to play in the Premier League and stand out.

My goal is to get my name known here in the Premier League.

I play for Watford, it's not the biggest team in the Premier League, but I go to Antigua, I go to different countries and people go 'you're Troy Deeney.'

From a personal point of view, when you're hitting the back of the net at Premier League level people recognize that you're doing something right.

The big Premier League clubs will only call me if I win a title in Germany.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

Before 'Y Tu Mama,' I did 16 movies that only my family got to see because I invited them to the premiere.

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

Tessa Blanchard is a premium athlete and you can't take that away from her.

I have lived my dream and played at the finest of cricket grounds across the globe, and I want to thank the groundsmen, clubs, associations, and everyone who painstakingly prepare the arena for our performances.

You're seen a certain way in the acting world. To them, you're still a football player and not taken as seriously. They think you're just doing it to be a celebrity, to keep your name out there. They don't think you'll prepare.

Nothing could prepare you for being instantly famous.

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.

Not everyone is prepared for fame, not even at the level I got it. One minute you're just a face in the crowd, next minute everyone wants a piece of you.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

There have been actresses who transitioned and nobody knew. But for me, with everybody knowing my history, it will be harder. I'm sure there are some great scripts calling for an ultra-glamorous woman. And I'm prepared to be ultra-glamorous.