Quotes About Recognition

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

People know who you are when you've never met them. For them, through interviews and seeing you perform, they feel like they know you and you've never seen them before. It's really different, but it's awesome.

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

I feel since people have started noticing me and enjoying my performance, and considering the kind of love I've got in 2017-18, many feel that I have arrived, because there's a belief that I can probably carry a film on my shoulders now.

I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.

When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

We performed at the VMAs, which is crazy because we grew up watching that show and all of our inspirations and idols were there.

I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of 'Notebook.'

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

As a performer, we look for applause.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

When I was on the X-Factor, I found that I grew a lot as a performer. I knew I could sing but I didn't believe in myself enough... I needed to hear that I was good.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.

I think I was about seven when people started telling my parents I would be an actor or a performer of some kind.

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.