Quotes About Recognition

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.

People be famous for everything other than music and that's what they really trying to do. But they don't know once you get famous for being this funny guy, nobody's going to take you serious as a musician.

Who told you I was a musician?

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

If you say, 'I don't care if Muhammad Ali was a Muslim or not; he was just great,' what you're really saying is, 'I don't care about Muhammad Ali.' Same with Prince being black.

I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world.

You can't deny a band whose fans will literally do anything to see them win the awards. We're very appreciative to the fan base. That mutual feeling of appreciation is something that really helps.

Dominick Cruz is my friend, we had a few beers together in the past, but you can't deny what I have done in the UFC.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

Jaipur plays an important role in my journey of becoming an actress. It all began in this city. One day, someone spotted me in the city and asked me to come for a photoshoot.

I don't like to celebrate my own achievements.

I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

In my time also when you do good, Frenchmen don't like it.

Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!

I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.

When I first came to California, nobody knew who I was or anything about me. I was a mystery to just about everybody, because most people didn't even know that the Jacksons had another sister.

Mystery fiction was considered a stepchild of literature.

I'm clearly not an international man of mystery.

In any awards ceremony, if you're a finicky person like myself, you can pick a multitude of things to nag about. I get frustrated with the comedy category because it feels like it gets sidelined a lot of the time for all kinds of things - not sidelined, marginalized.

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.