Quotes About Recognition

I've definitely done something that's made my mum and dad forever proud.

I've never not felt Maori, ever. And because of the era I grew up in, I was never not seen as that. I would walk down the street with Mum and Dad and people would say, 'Look, there's a little Maori girl.'

I have done 'Mumbai Meri Jaan,' 'Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!;' they are not comedy. But those roles didn't stick with people. Comedy films run, even though some of them are bad films. So people see these more.

People of Mumbai respect me a lot and they are well aware of my contributions towards the film industry.

In Bengaluru, I'm Danish's sister, and in Mumbai, he's Kubbra's brother!

A hundred for Mumbai feels good, and it doesn't get bigger than MCA for me because they are the people who have helped me get to where I have.

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

I am on a mural in Belfast with 'Floating up the Lagan in a bubble' on it. You know you have made it when you have got a mural.

My own son called me Eddie Murphy's brother once. Once.

When you ask people who their favorite comedian is or favorite African-American comedian, people generally say Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, or Richard Pryor. Redd Foxx gets left out a lot.

If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

I'm not sure a lot of us in the music business or in rock 'n' roll are given credit for irony or humor.

I knew my limitations even when I was a music director.

I'm just not into the shady side of the music industry. Give credit where credit's due.

The hardest part about the music industry for anyone is getting into the ears of the world.

I feel that in the music industry there are so many artists it's easy to be forgotten because it's so cluttered.

Nobody knew me in Delhi when I shot for my first music video, 'Haaye Dil,' at India Gate.

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.

We should be so grateful for musicals, and the amount of work that goes into these shows is easily comparable to things I've been in at the National and the RSC. Why do we think it is less important?.