Quotes About Success

The Apollo seats 3,600 people: I could hear them making a huge noise for Milton Jones and Lee Mack. If the audience doesn't make the same amount of noise for you, you feel like you've failed.

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

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.

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

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

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

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.

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

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

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.

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

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 started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.

Winning is a different thing, but even being nominated for an award like Filmfare is an honour.

I've been invited to the Grammys with other friends who were nominated. I'm like, 'Naw, I'm not gonna go until it's my time.' And who knew it was gonna be, like, the next year? It's crazy.

Just to be nominated, and especially as a new artist and a female artist, is a feat. Winning anything is just a bonus.

I want to be nominated for Grammys.

I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.

The Emmy nomination did a world of good for my confidence.

My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.