Quotes About Recognition

People have recognized me sometimes but not much. I'm glad my life isn't too different. I don't want it to be.

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

Everyone wants to get a piece of me.

I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I'm used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all the time. I'm not very good at that. I could get better at that.

Everybody wants to fight me so they can be a superstar.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

I don't get recognized too much, which is cool because, you know, I don't want people to be overwhelmed.

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.

I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.

People who don't want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

When you win your first Grammy, it's true, you really want to thank all the little people.

While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in international affairs.

Rankings don't mean much to me because they can change after one fight. I just hope that I've at least gotten respect. A respect ranking is all I want.

When people stop me in the street, and I can see they want to tell me more than they want the selfie, they want to tell me what it means to them, and that means a lot to me.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

When I approach a person, I feel a certain way. If I don't feel that way, I'm not going to approach that individual. "I see something in you" - I want the person to know that.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.