It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.
You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.
I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.
I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'm grateful for everything I have today.
Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.
I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.
Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.
I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.
The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.'
I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.
With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.
The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.
