Quotes About Recognition

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'

I won't have a standout moment until I perform at the VMAs, meet Ryan Gosling, and hug Sky Ferreira.

I prefer people to say to me, 'You're one of my favorite actors,' rather than 'You're one of my favorite character actors.' It sounds like a slam. At least it sounds that way to me.

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'

Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.

If you get into the main draw of a Grand Slam, then you've made your mark and proved that's where you belong.

Always I say, 'No. 1 in the world without a Grand Slam, you are not a real No. 1.'

I prefer the Grand Slam than the No. 1, but still, to get No. 1, not many players did that, so it's going to be very important for me.

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to - you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him - thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn't. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.

Do I think people are sleeping on me? Absolutely.

'The Last Seduction,' 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'While You Were Sleeping' did a lot to get me noticed for bigger roles.

When you have a good anything, you notice the difference - whether it's a good shooting sleeve or a pair of shoes or a jersey, we all feel the differences.

I just feel Black women, we get slept on a lot and people don't recognize our greatness in our curls and in chocolate skin.

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.

I've never thought of my name at the top of the marquee in any particular terms other than, you know, slight bewilderment.

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

If you're not a Grizz fan, you might not even know what we're up to until playoffs come around. We get forgotten and sometimes slighted.

When somebody notices me in the slightest, I can feel the eyes - boom-boom - as soon as they pass.

I like to say that I don't have the slightest doubt that Barack Obama read me in the early 80s. It's the kind of person he was!