Quotes About Recognition

Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met.

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

Colin Cowherd? I never met him; I don't know him.

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.

Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.

If we're compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that's actually a pretty damn good compliment.

I always say, 'Hey, I'm in Metallica, but I wasn't on the Black Album.'

I am Mexican, and people tend to forget that.

People who know Mexico know me because I'm so much a part of Mexico.

Canelo is the number one in Mexico, a country known for great fighters. He is very special.

I'm not the face of Mexico.

In Mexico they think I'm Mexican. In Italy they think I'm Italian.

You go to Miami, and you might only hear one Tyga song on the radio. You go to L.A., and you might hear six or seven on the radio. There's certain things you do for your city.

All through Miami, the guys who grew up with me hitting at the place I hit, they all call me Flaco. Nobody calls me J.D. It's like, 'Hey, Flaco.'

I became the face of the franchise in Miami, and I don't think they wanted me to be that. The respect was just never there.

I wanted to be the man, the King of Miami.

When I go back home, I feel like Michael Jackson in Memphis. They love me.

Here I am sitting in the back of a cab with Catherine Zeta-Jones who is telling me Michael Douglas has fond memories of me - it just makes me feel good as a human being.

I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

When I was in college going through the draft process my dad was like, 'Hey Michael Jordan loves your game,' I'm like dad? This is before social media; this is before any of that so I'm like, 'Dad, get out of here, there's no way you can know that Michael Jordan likes my game.'

I actually got online and went to check my e-mail, and I always look at the top news, and I saw my name and I thought, 'There's got to be another Michelle McCool,' or 'This is a mistake,' or something!

It's a trippy and really magical experience when people like Michelle Obama are looking at you saying, 'Great job,' when all you want to do is say, 'Great job,' to the First Lady of our country.