Quotes About Achievement

The fact that I've been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.

You want to win. Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.

Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.

It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.

We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing.

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

As a kid, I dreamed of being nominated for a Grammy.

It's an incredible honor to be nominated by the Academy.

I've watched the Emmys for almost my whole life, so it was crazy to finally be there in the audience clapping and actually going on stage. Hopefully one day I'll get to be actually nominated.

People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

I got an email saying we were nominated for a Grammy, and I instantly thought it was a joke. So I started Googling the nominees, and there we were!

I was nominated for a live-action short-film Academy Award in 2003.