Quotes About Recognition

If you want to promote me, promote me.

I'm not going to change who I am or the way I promote fights just to get a title shot, but I think I've done plenty to earn that shot.

To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

It is different because 'Grahan' was promoted Pan India and audience from all over the country watched it. It was obviously a very different feeling and a different kind of success.

This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.

I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'

I think there's a lack of respect for me out there, from the promoters, boxing people. It's something I've faced ever since I put on gloves. I don't understand it. I know my father doesn't.

Promoters believed in me and gave me a platform, and then the fans started believing in me. It went from me trying to show the fans what I was all about to growing companies around the world. I got to be the face of so many companies, like EVOLVE and Insane Championship Wrestling in Scotland.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.

There was a lot of pride, being one of the elite fighters in the world, in the best promotion in the world. That's what I was proud of. To be called a UFC fighter, that was important.

The boxing world knows I'm the baddest man out there, but not having the right promotion behind me putting me out there has hurt me and that's why I've made the changes, and Matchroom and DAZN know what I can bring and they can move me to the next level.

Actors don't like promotions, but I love it because I feel someone is actually interested in knowing me!

When I left the UFC, it was a good business decision for me at the time, but it's good to be back home with the promotion where I made my name. When I would fight in other organizations, people would be like, 'Oh, the Arlovski, you are UFC fighter, right?' And of course, that's how everyone knows me.

My mother was prone to calling me by her secretaries' names and working through each of them until she got to Carol.

Most of the time, I've got my kids with me, so I'm not as prone to meeting people. And then, you never really know if someone is talking to you because you're a celebrity.

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

I am a chilled-out person. But if people call me by my name, I hope they pronounce it right. I get called Baron, sometimes Varun, and my surname is often changed to Sobit.

No one can pronounce my name. My name is 'The Black Guy From 40-Year-Old Virgin'.

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

You read a book, write a detailed review as proof you've read it, and they give you a badge. That's where my competitive nature came out. Give me the badges! I would sit in the library all day, not 'cos I loved reading, just because I needed those badges.

There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.

Sacramento is where I grew up, so I felt like it had not been given its proper due in cinema.

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.