Quotes About Recognition

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.

I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the Oscars was the biggest one.

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

Winning in Berlinale, in Hong Kong, and then to get such an amazing response, reviews, and now to be India's official entry for Oscars... My mother is right up there and keeping a check on me. Her blessings are always going to be with me, I know.

The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.

Even if the Tonys aren't as glitzy as the Oscars, being a part of the ceremony is no less exciting.

People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars.

Often times I don't watch the Oscars because I say this isn't for me.

I watch the Cannes awards ceremony because I relate more to the films that are competing in Cannes than the ones competing for the Oscars.

I would like to go to the Oscars. I'm not even talking about being nominated - although that would be lovely. Even if it was I won a competition on the back of a crisp packet to go to the Oscars I would like to go to the Oscars.

I really don't think about the Oscars.

If you were an actress in a film that had been nominated for five Oscars, including one for yourself, you would expect to have scripts landing on the door step.

People would call me Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan or whatever popular martial artist there was at that time. I also remember the other kids at the lunch table freaking out when I brought in Korean food.

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

I think Kanye West is - people don't give him the credit he deserves for what he has brought to our generation.

Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

I had no idea that our love of fame was going to display itself in a high political office on a world stage.