Quotes About Recognition

When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

A lot of people think I'm a chick. It happens the most at airports. The flight attendants will always say, 'Have a nice flight, Ms. Borns.' It must be the hair.

Being from Flint, especially in the basketball community, is a big deal. Basketball in Flint, you're pretty much like a god there if you play college basketball or are lucky enough to make it to the NBA.

Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.

If you listen to Drake's first single... he copied my whole bar word for word and my cadence and my flow from my song. Can I just get my credit?

I remember getting flowers and champagne for being one of the first black artists on MTV. That was a big deal.

The women in Europe think I'm the Beatles, they throw me flowers.

I don't feel like there's any artists in the game that have been as creative as Missy Elliott. I feel like she's a genius and she deserves all her flowers.

I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

I deserve this rematch. I want to thank Floyd Mayweather for giving me this opportunity.

I never enjoyed being the star-man because as soon as you become the focal point of the team, you assume an extra burden of responsibility.

When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought ,'OK, I'm the banjo girl.'

I appreciate folks asking for my autograph.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

That the longer you can work and stay in people's peripherals, the more likely folks might be to acknowledge you and know that you're there.

The folks at Curb Records didn't have respect for me and I was there for 15 years.

I'm followed everywhere - it has become normal for me.

I don't think the number of followers has anything to do with how good I am fighting. That said, I am good at fighting, and I do have a lot of followers.

I did two films that have a great following. One is 'Caddyshack,' one is 'Tron.' To tell you the truth, most people don't know that it's me in both films.

When you already have a following, people are more likely to employ you.

Fame, for me, is different. Fame, for me, is not seeing myself on big billboards: it is when I go on a street and people connect to me. If I going to walk on the street, I know I can get 100,000 people following me.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.