Quotes About Recognition

I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!

I'm not the most in-tune guy with what is getting nominated and winning awards in general.

Winning 'American Idol' is awesome.

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

Anyone who is humble but still super accomplished, super recognized, renowned, has status, and has every reason to not have to be humble if they don't want to, but they still choose to be humble because they value that humanity is connected - that we're all on the same level as humans - that humility is what wins my heart.

I want to be in a place where they know I'm the best corner in the game and let me play and help the team get wins.

I was very proud to win the PFA trophy because usually an attacker or a midfielder wins it.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.

I was recently designated Tweeter Laureate of Texas, which apparently is a thing.

When I go home to Texas and get recognized a lot, that can be weird.

I wasn't getting any work as a songwriter in Texas because I was only known as a fiddle player.

Honestly, I personally would prefer to have my name not mentioned alongside codifiers, like 'white rapper' or things like that, because the codifiers I like are Texas rappers. If you were to compare me to Lil' Keke or the people that really inspired me, like UGK... In my mind, that's who I think I should be compared to.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be.

That's kind of something we - my team and I - text each other a lot. Anytime something great happens, we're like, 'Hey, look, the song's #17. Boom!'

I want Punjabi film industry to make it's way into the text books, so that when children read about this industry they should know how it reached to its glory.