Quotes About Recognition

I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is.

One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.

I'm fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I'm proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged.

There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.

Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.

By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize.

When 'Next to Normal' won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There's a certain confidence that comes with being selected.

Because I've got an AFI award, I feel there is a certain expectation when I walk into a room, you know, that 'That Deb Mailman must know something!' But I'm just as nervous with every experience. I still doubt whether or not I can pull something off. I still think, 'When is the review going to come along that says Deb Mailman's not very good?'

On the street, on the train - I pull my hat down, and nobody knows it's me. I always wanted the kind of fame that came with an off button.

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

'Super Troopers' did well but not crazy-well theatrically. But it did so well after that it - in ancillary markets - that it became impossible for us to get away from it. We'd get pulled over by cops who would thank us and then would let us go.

People keep saying Aldo deserves this, he deserves that - how the hell do you deserve something when you pulled out of all these events?

I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

Students were pulled aside to spend more time in art class, and I wasn't one of them.

I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

Though I was nominated for awards for films like 'Tezaab' and 'Apna Sapna Money Money' but I never won an award. Now I am not even nominated for any awards but still I attend the award functions as I love being there despite figuring prominently in a lot of leg pulling that goes around in the award ceremonies.

Australians love to pump you up when you're nobody. Then, when you start to put your head above water and say, 'Well, actually, I am a bit different, I am an individual and I do have a particular talent', or whatever, they want to go after you. But the good news is that once you reach a certain level, I think they start to leave you alone.

Any time you get a Hall of Fame player that even knows my name, you're going to be pumped up about that.