Quotes About Achievement

Every time we get into an argument about cooking or laundering shirts, she shakes her Oscar at me, and I'm dead in the water. It would be a great equalizer now after 33 years.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.

I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected.

If you think about it, I made history. Not only was I the first black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar, I was the first black British person.

Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

I'd like to win an Oscar.

I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.