Quotes About Recognition

I like being a role model - people have told me that I am a role model for empowered women, but I don't see myself that way.

I know people will only come to me with good roles.

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

That's my goal: to get the world to know who Romeo Santos is. His music. My music. Even if they don't like it, I want them to know who I am.

As a rookie, they don't really know your name.

One goal I want to accomplish is I want to be known as the hardest-working guy on the team my rookie year.

I'd like to win Rookie of the Year.

Personally, I want to win rookie of the year.

I can say Rookie of the Year is what I want to do.

When I was a rookie people would always ask, 'What are you going to bring to the team?' Now I don't get asked that question anymore. People know.

That's the first goal I have, to be Rookie of the Year.

My standout moment I would have to say was when 'Black Rose' dropped and getting the co-sign from Nas and The LOX. I would say all those moments together were crazy for me.

Everybody says Jalen Rose is somebody I have to watch, even though he's a little older than me. It started back in high school. Everybody called me 'Little Jalen.'

Everybody wants to be a first round pick.

I was lucky that I made a few movies in a row that people really responded to - not me, particularly, but the films as a whole were appreciated.

I won an ASCAP award two years in a row - that was sick.

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy in a rubber mask.

My real last name is Flores, and Milian is actually my mom's maiden name. So it's not made up, which is cool; it runs in the family. And it actually worked out better for my career to have the last name Milian, because Flores kept me in a little box, and no one really associated me with the last name Flores.

It's just about getting those runs on the board and the more I can do that, the more I can put my name up there.

I'm in no rush to become extremely famous.