Quotes About Recognition

People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.

I will say as much as we butted heads, Apollo Crews, I think, is an incredible talent.

When I walk or people see me somewhere they stop and recognize me; heads turn when I pass. God has blessed me.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal.

I heard I was the self-proclaimed White Mamba, which I can say I have never self-proclaimed myself anything.

I heard people compare me to Cristiano Ronaldo.

Hearing Radney Foster was big for me, like hearing Al Green or R.E.M. for the first time.

It's different hearing girls I don't even know scream my name.

A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.

It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

As soon as someone hears the name 'Situation,' they're gonna kind of know that it's gonna be good.

I was aware of all the artists who make good debut records over the years, but no one hears them - and I wanted to make sure that didn't happen in my case.

I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.

People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

Actually, when I say my name in the U.S., people are like 'You're Elsa from Frozen!' And I'm like, I can't break their hearts, 'I could be!'

As an artist, it is heartwarming to see other artists appreciate your work by making covers and renditions of your original track.

Just to brand somebody as actor and trivialize is wrong. I am running around in the heat, doing my work constantly.

I don't like a lot of attention. That's kind of who I am at heart. So I see everything, the people circulating around me and a lot of people know me - it kind of feels like a heavy weight sometimes.

When the fans say 'Werdum is the greatest heavyweight in the world,' I love this for sure.