You should never turn your back on the market that gave you notoriety and be who you are and give you the numbers it gives you in the United States. I can't deny that the success I've had in the United States or the success that 'Pulling Strings' was due to my work in Latin America.
If you know sports in Dade County, you know me.
When I am in Mumbai, I am called a director. In Chennai, I am called a hero. In the Telugu States, I am called a dance master.
We always hear Compton and Long Beach, but Watts is always overlooked.
Every man has an idea, of course, that the State from which he comes possesses peculiar merit
When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.
I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.
We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
Sometimes, people know me from Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' But that usually only happens in America.
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
I've done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York.
A lot of people didn't see me play in Sacramento. I think we had one TV game.
What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.
I've always thought that the - as far as regions of the country that people brag about, as far as top talent, the Inland Empire is awfully hard to beat.
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
I come from Essex, Buckhurst Hill, where Jade Goody was buried. My hometown will forever be known for that.
You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.
A bugbear of mine is bragging rights in regional derbies: it would be a lot more worth to the regional game if we did something special in European rugby.
I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.
My name itself is huge in Omaha. That's not a target I need to focus on because we know we can sell out.
The farther I go East in the U.S. the more I get recognized because of more sports crazy the East Coast is.
Recognizing absolutely depends on the public that I'm out with. If I'm in Atlanta, it's definitely Why Did I Get Married. If I'm in Seattle, it's Spawn or something like that. I'm known for a lot of different things. People will call me Bone a lot, the action aficionados.. People who like comedy, they call me Black Dynamite.
I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.
I think everybody, from whatever town they're from, knows their hometown commercials.
