Making a Name for Oneself Quotes

When I was a kid, I had to try a lot of pyrotechnics just so people would know who I was.

When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

Third-string quarterbacks, fourth-string quarterbacks - they get their opportunities, and they shine.

I have always wanted to be independent. When I became a producer, people said I would not succeed, but I proved them wrong.

Of course I expected to rise so quickly. I know what I'm capable of. Even though other people didn't know, I was going to make sure they knew exactly who Alexa Bliss was, and I was going to make sure they never forgot it.

I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'

I'm a very famous wife but I'm still plodding along in my career.

I was 29 when we sort of broke through with Ghost.

It took years and a lot of diligence on my part. But I've formed my own thing, and now I get people who are surprised to find out he's my dad. I dreamed that would happen, and it has: I'm no longer introduced to people as Brian Williams' daughter.

I always knew if I had some success that I'd no longer be thought of as Dick Van Dyke's brother.

Obviously, having my dad's last name, I think that's more the chip on my shoulder because it has been a mixed blessing. I always will have the Flair stigma, and I think that's where I deserve to be there or this, or I'm not just his daughter. I think that's the chip on my shoulder.

I got a call for 'Aaya Na Tu' the same day that Forbes featured me in their list of 30 under 30. That day, I knew I had established myself as more than just a singer.

I'm going to reach that No. 1 on Billboard.

It's really cool to come from nothing and essentially be a nobody and make yourself somebody.

I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'

I always wanted to come into the spotlight. I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought it would but this is still something I knew I would be going through and would have to experience.

I do want to carry on my dad's legacy, but I also want to carve out my own path. I have to work harder, I think, just because I do have that last name. I don't want people to think that's why I am where I am in this industry. I put in the time, and I want to be just as good as my dad was.

If you don't come from film family, it takes time for people to register you. When you don't come from film family, the connection with the audience takes time to build up; it happens eventually.

Years ago, I was a nobody. Now, I am a face recognized almost across the world.

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

At some point, a young player has to grasp the opportunity and make himself undroppable.

I wasn't on television until 25.

My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.