Quotes About Recognition

I don't believe in awards, and I think only film fare awards are faring.

The real stars who have dedicated their services to the film industry are Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, and Akshay Kumar. I do not come in this league at all.

I can never ever forget Bhojpuri cinema because that is where I got my due. I can never turn my back on the Bhojpuri film industry.

The film industry has given me everything I have today.

Of course, whether it's for negative or positive reasons, I've always been in the news... I've been constantly discussed inside and outside the film industry. That means I matter, doesn't it?

I am proud because when the history of Bhojpuri film industry will be written my name will be there.

I think a lot of black filmmakers have done very well.

I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.

Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.

I don't expect to win awards while working in films.

Films always make everyone else rich save the author.

I really don't think I could get starstruck with anybody. Famous final words, but I just don't think I could.

I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.'

Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.

I mean there's something I have achieved in life, even if it's little, and if people write about it, then it's fine.

I think it is a blessing to be known by the name of your character. How many characters can we count on our fingertips? Not many. To be one of them is a big achievement.

Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.

When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.

People talk about me being a firefighter, but I have also been very successful. It annoys me that in this country you get pigeon-holed for certain things.

People who get OBEs are people like firefighters and lifesavers - these are real-life heroes.