Quotes About Recognition

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.

Sometimes, when I'm sitting at my desk for long hours and nothing's coming to me, I remember my fifth-grade teacher, the way her eyes lit up when she said, 'This is really good.'

People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.

If you're desperate enough for attention, any attention will make you feel better.

When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

When you take this journey of becoming an actor, there are only destinations - one, where people give you that limelight and expect the world from you, and two, they don't know who you are, and they don't care what you are doing. You have to choose where you want to go.

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

I've had a couple of experiences. It can get scary. Especially when you're on TV and you're in someone's home every week and they feel like they know you. If you don't know them back, they don't understand. They've become detached. But most of the time, fans are great.

If you want me in your film, do a favored-nation clause. Don't determine my worth based on what's left over.

I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now.

Why does the worth of an actress have to be determined by her co-stars?

A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people's legacy starts late or starts early, or they last a long time or a short amount of time. As a musician, I've never taken an approach of wanting to try to control that because I don't think that I can.

Whether I am going in the right direction or not is determined not just by awards but also by the kind of films I do and their success.

What do you call success in our sport? What determines success? Are you successful if you are 10-0 and no one is watching your fights? Is that success?

Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

The more we can make our developers famous, the better.

The image of women's football has definitely changed. Now we've got to make sure it keeps developing.

I felt like I looked like a star from the get-go and worked pretty well. I feel like even when I was in developmental with WWE they never saw me as a star, so I would always have to put everyone over.

We don't want to just put logos on somebody's devices. It needs to feel like Nokia, what Nokia was known for.

Who's more important than Diana Ross?

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

I'm not a celebrity, I'm a person, and when fans call me Diego, it's easier to remember that I'm no better than anyone else.