Quotes About Recognition

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish.

I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

I have a Tony Award now. It hasn't changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and TV stuff, where people will see me more easily now because they know me.

There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it.

When I got to New York, all I wanted to do - or so I thought - was win a Tony award or, at least, be nominated.

People ask me, 'Is there pressure to win a Tony for your next one?' I've got three on my mantelpiece; I'm good. If that's the end of the story, I'm fine.

There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.

I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.

I had been watching the Emmys since I was probably 5 years old. Those shows, when you're a kid, it all seems like such a big, big deal, and only special certain people would win one of these big things like a Tony or an Emmy or an Oscar.

'Kiss Me, Kate' was my 'Ragtime' Tony.

If I could hire a coach in this country and I could get Tony Bennett, there would be nobody in second place. Nobody.

I think the Oscar is the big money award; that means you've made it in a money sense. The Tony has always represented - to me, and most actors that I've talked to - an artistic award. It means you're an artist and not just a popular performer.

George Hearn taught me that you learn that there are roles that are Tony roles and roles that are not.

All I have to do is walk into any crowd in the United States, I'll bet you, and say, 'G-rr-r-r-e-a-a-at!' and everyone would turn around and say, 'Tony!'

Give Tony Ferguson a title fight. He needs it!