Quotes About Achievement

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.

Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.

I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the Oscars was the biggest one.

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

Winning in Berlinale, in Hong Kong, and then to get such an amazing response, reviews, and now to be India's official entry for Oscars... My mother is right up there and keeping a check on me. Her blessings are always going to be with me, I know.

The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.

Even if the Tonys aren't as glitzy as the Oscars, being a part of the ceremony is no less exciting.

I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.

People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars.

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

I was going to be a comedian but then also winning Oscars and directing movies and creating my own charities and saving the world. The more I've let go of that... I see more access to possibly being able to have something like that.

I would like to go to the Oscars. I'm not even talking about being nominated - although that would be lovely. Even if it was I won a competition on the back of a crisp packet to go to the Oscars I would like to go to the Oscars.

I really don't think about the Oscars.

If you were an actress in a film that had been nominated for five Oscars, including one for yourself, you would expect to have scripts landing on the door step.

I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.

I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big. I thought I could achieve great things. I don't want to sound megalomaniac, but my whole life is about doing something for the world, from as far back as I can remember.

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!