Manoj Bajpayee Quotes

Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

I love awards, especially if I get them.

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.

I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

Of course awards matter.

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.

When you do what I do, there are a lot of institutions that give you awards. I've gotten maybe 20 medals. They're glorious, and there's a spirit behind them. But sometimes they give you this dreadful modern glass thing. I wish everyone could afford a loving cup.

I don't really care about awards.

Unfortunately, in the Hollywood way, respect comes in the form of a trophy a lot of the time.

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

Titles and honor and salutes it is in the power of the supreme authority in many countries to bestow, and it is from no vain or childish instinct that the world in all ages has attached value to these emblems or rewards.

I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

I don't give much thought to individual awards.

Now I can always be called 'Emmy winner Regina King.' I think that in this business, it must mean something. Every time someone has won an award, and they're announcing them or speaking about them, that prefaces their name.

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

I personally am not very interested in awards or the awards circuit.

I find award functions laughable. To me, it is just like an extension of a college annual day function.

In my career I have achieved important titles.

I have an awards cabinet in my studio where I keep my eight Oscars, my 11 Grammys, my seven Golden Globes, and my Tony Award.

Well, I think awards are pretty meaningless.

You have to be great to get Doyle's seal of approval.

Whoever wins MVP, whoever wins whatever those awards are, that's not my decision.

I don't measure myself in my contract in terms of what I'm making.