Quotes About Recognition

Sookie, you really are smarter than anyone gives you credit for being.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

Sometimes you forget that you are people's hero as well. People do look up to you and I'd forgotten that because, to me, I am just a normal lad.

I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.

I feel really proud of myself for helping to put the ladies' game out there.

Basically, what we've done is, every year we take half the money and allow people who've helped us in the industry to give it away. One year, the ladies who put the pretzel bags in the boxes got to give it away.

I feel like every year there's a thing about 'not enough roles for ladies!' and, then, also an article, like 'The Year of The Woman.' I think that we all just know in our hearts they're underrepresented. But that doesn't mean that there aren't amazing moments.

I think Li Na and some other Chinese ladies have done so many amazing things for Asian tennis.

The lads I played football with on the street when I was a kid in Cardiff were as good as me, and in many ways, my career is due to them.

Winning a Filmfare Black Lady is a big deal for me.

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.

I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.

The First Lady has a lot of power. I hope Hillary Clinton realizes that.

It's really hard to go put mascara on a lady in the mall, and people recognize you and ask you what you're doing there, and all you can think of saying is, 'I'm trying to make a living.'

You get tarred with the brush of 'Lady in Red.' I play Russia or China or places all over the world. They don't even speak English but they know the words. You get a big song like that, and people love it or hate it. And if they don't like it, they don't like anything at all by the artist.

In America, if you say 'Chris de Burgh,' they won't have a clue, but they all know 'Lady in Red.'

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

I love the Empire Awards. It is really different and laid back.

The Lakers are really the biggest team in the world. Everybody knows the Lakers.

Usually I feel kind-of normal and lame, and then I'll go to the coffee shop and someone'll say, 'You rock!' And then I'll remember how awesome I am.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.