Quotes About Recognition

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

I'd like to win an Oscar.

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

I've always wanted to appear in a 3-D Movie, that's always been a goal of mine. If you appear in a 3-D picture you are a shoo-in for an Oscar. There's no competition.

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

I have an Oscar on my mantel.

One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

I think for most actors, because we sort of have to tell ourselves this, we always say, 'Oh, it doesn't mean anything to win an Oscar!' It certainly isn't a goal that you want to set yourself up for, because then you're just setting yourself up for disaster. Because how many people actually win an Oscar?

The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.

I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

If they didn't have an Oscar for people to shoot for, all they'd do is be making 'Dumb And Dumber' again and again.

Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying.

I literally don't think about Oscar.

What I really want is an Oscar.

An Oscar nomination? That would be a very satisfying thing, I'm sure. I would appreciate the thought. It would be like taking your hat off as an actor to all the people who walk through you.

My Oscar has appeared in every play I've done since - not in view of the audience, but for my colleagues to enjoy.

You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you engage with it; you go on the David Letterman show, and you do the interviews, and that's how you get out there.

Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations?

My dad won an Oscar in 1951 with an un-Anglicized name, the first Hispanic to ever win an Oscar, and the Academy is so intractable to this day.