Quotes About Recognition

I have to say, post-fame was difficult because it wasn't just fame: it was super-fame of a kind that few have. It was attached to a generation's dreams, and my own personal dreams were mixed up in it, too.

I'm glad my son doesn't have to be labeled black or Samoan or mixed. He has instead been labeled as the best.

It's funny, but people still get us mixed up. They come up to me and say, 'Gee, we still remember how great you were with Wally Berry in 'The Champ' and I have to tell them that was Jackie Cooper.'

When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.

We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn't been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress. I didn't have any intention of becoming an actress.

While I was in college, I was intrigued by modelling and also won the best model award in my college.

I didn't see a lot of role models or women who looked like me on screen when I was growing up. For me, one thing that changed all of that was seeing Keke Palmer in 'Akeelah and The Bee.' That film made me realize that I wasn't an alien.

There are great female role models out there, and I just feel very proud to be able to represent them in my work.

I seem to be known as much by the moniker 'Mrs Funnybones' as my own name these days. The book was about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. I am glad that India seems to be looking back at me with a grin.

I don't know if I'm the modern-day Dirk, but, you know, I'll take it. I won't complain about that.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

I am one of the most famous people in Russia, which is maybe not modest, but it's true.

My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

I appreciate every moment.

People all the time say to me, 'You look just like Don Lemon,' and I would go, 'I hear that all the time! 'And after a moment, I would go, 'I am Don Lemon!'

There's been moments where I've felt, as an indigenous woman growing up in Australia, there's been that kind of rivalry of being indigenous... I've had that experience of someone saying, 'I don't know if she's going to go that far.'

I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.

I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too.

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

The first MLB game I did was a Monday Night game, and no one really knew I was doing it. So walking into the clubhouse, I tried to introduce myself to people like, 'Hey, I'm in the booth.' And they were kind of confused, like, 'You're a female, I don't understand.'

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

Dance Monkey' showed me that I'm good enough.

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.