Quotes About Acknowledgment

I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.

'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

I'm so ludicrously lucky, it would be disgusting if I didn't acknowledge it.

Don't dismiss Auriemma and UConn just because their excellence shines on the female side of the coin.

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

I want to let all black women know I have no disrespect toward them at all.

I would never disrespect the fans that helped me get to who I am.

Ain't nobody bumping Nas no more, no disrespect to him. He had his time.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

The name of a district or a commissionerate should be what the country and the world identifies it with.

I do have to thank my mother for my eyebrows.

I have faced up to what I am.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Facts make you face stuff about yourself you'd rather not see.

Look at the facts as they truly are, not as you want them to be.

I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.

I don't think about my fame very much.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.

A couple of people thought I looked familiar, but it was like, No.

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

I grew up in the once segregated South. I experienced forced integration during my formative school years. I lived the sacrifices, burdens, and tears. I also lived the moments of understanding, of acknowledgment, of fellowship and success. I saw my parents and grandparents coming home beaten down - and some of my friends beaten up.

I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don't mind you using it, but at least give it a name.' When he hits it, the announcers just say, 'Well, he just hit that... thing.'