Gabriel Iglesias Quotes

What matters is performances, regardless of what the name is, whether it's The Rock - which is my nickname and people call me that all the time - it's no big deal. So, whether it's The Rock or Dwayne Johnson, in terms of being recognised I just think that the goal is to be recognised as a good actor. I don't put much thought or weight into the name, or the name change, or what it is, or what does it mean? It's just a nickname.

Once we got to the race track, everybody called me Bubba - we created a brand around it. Now it's become a household name.

The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then.

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

You know, if nobody knows who you are, nobody's going to buy your record.

Get them to sing your song, and then they will know who you are.

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.

I don't want to be a rap star. I want you to see me and just say, 'That's Mase,' not 'That's Puff Daddy and Mase,' you know.

Name recognition takes time.

You know you've made it to the big time when you're on a cereal box.

Young man, make your name worth something.

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.

I don't like to be called a symbol. And I don't like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I'd rather be known as a hard worker. I don't think symbols do much, nor icons.

Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.

Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!

People who call me the Twilight girl and mean it. Please, pigeon hole me. That means I did it right.

How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Jesus was not famous in his day. If there were no Bible, there would have been no record of him. The record belongs to his four disciples; nobody else has ever mentioned him, whether he existed or not. He was not famous. He was not successful. Can you think of a greater failure than Jesus? But, by and by, he became more and more significant; by and by, people recognized him. It takes time.

I don't think labels are as important as results.

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.