Unappreciated Dedication Quotes

Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.

But as a reporter, that's how you know you're doing a good job - when no one's talking about you. And something has gone wrong if they are.

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

I tend to be that swimmer that doesn't look like she is trying, but is actually dying on the inside. It's a little bit unfortunate because people are, like, 'Can you just try harder?' I was, like, 'If you can see what's going on in my head right now, you wouldn't be telling me that.'

I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.

Sometimes I get all the credit, and it makes me feel bad because I'm not the only one out here sacrificing everything. There are people out here on the road with me with kids and families, and they're out here busting their backs for me.

I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.