Quotes About Recognition

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

I absolutely appreciate the opportunity it's been. I wouldn't be here without 'Gossip Girl,' so I will always be in debt and grateful.

We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all.

I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'

I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.

I think fame is hard in any capacity. It's so fleeting; it's not anything that you can really grab.

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

Anytime you can grace the cover of any videogame, that means that you're on that level. That you're one of the best.

I think that what's bizarre to me about life is that sometimes you have to have everything taken away before you experience grace or before you actually recognize that grace can happen to you.

Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.

Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you're always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it's kind of awkward.

When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone.

It's a little crazy. Last year, I was in seventh grade, and we were the babies at the school - 'cause my middle school's eighth grade and seventh grade - and now I'm eighth grade, and all these new students have come in, and they're all like, 'Oh my gosh! Darci Lynne!'

I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.

If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.'

I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history.

When you relentlessly work, you gradually get accepted.

People got to know me very gradually. It was little things. It's still like that. 'That Thing you Do!' was a big thing. It's always been very gradual. Like I say, people still ask me if I'm still acting. 'I've seen all your movies. What are you doing now?' Ha ha!

Gradually, people are connecting with my music, and that means the world to me.

A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.

When I was in high school at the age of 17 - I graduated from high school in Decatur, Georgia, as valedictorian of my high school - I was very proud of myself.