Peter Jackson Quotes

I'm proud of 'Mission: Impossible.' It made me famous beyond my wildest dreams.

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

I don't care about awards and all the attention being a 'celebrity' gets you. It's just part of the job.

Year after year, the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

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.

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

I've been so incredibly blessed. I've worked with some of the greatest professionals in town. I stood at the Golden Globes.

I love working with Oscar winners.

The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

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

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

Entertainer of the Year, to me, there's never been any question that that's one on my bucket list that I want. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you. If there's one that I ever could get - I would trade all the rest of them in for that one.

I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.

When I walked into the room to meet Michael Landon, it was clear he was a big-time star. To be around him was as far from Charles Ingalls as you could get. The hair was the same - no one touched his hair.

And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

I think fame comes from actually doing something big with your career.