Quotes About Recognition

Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.

I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

I am used to the hype because I played in the NBA.

I don't work for awards; they're just an icing on the cake.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I'm an icon. The world decides all of that.

Coca-Cola is an American icon.

I am a huge fan of gays. They love me, and I love them. They think of me as sort of a gay icon.

I ain't no icon. It's people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy. I'm just crazy, that's all.

I want to be an icon.

I don't consider myself an icon.

I am proud of the fact that people consider me a style icon.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

I am not aware I am an icon.

My mother was never very famous when I was growing up, so it wasn't so difficult. It was only when I left home and went to university that she become this style icon.

I don't feel like an icon; I don't think of myself as an icon.

I know, being a band that's mostly gay and has women in it, I just think that there are the male icon bands: they are always - and they deserve it - but they are always touted as, 'These guys are heavy-duty.' I think bands, because we have a sense of humor, we are not always taken as seriously.

I am not an icon.

I'm friends with Kehlani - she's a LGBTQ icon.

I've got my fair share of appreciation, and I've definitely grown as an actor, but I never expected to be an icon.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that... I have not really done anything.

I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool.