Manisha Koirala Quotes

I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.

The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

I don't feel I have to acknowledge how I'm doing by an award.

I don't like to do something just to prove I can do it.

People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it.

It's much nicer to be praised than to be damned. But you have to have a certain sense of your own priorities and ideas about what works and what doesn't because otherwise, if you're just looking for eternal validation all the time, you can be motivated by the wrong things and I don't think it's as personally satisfying in your own work.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

I don't mind not having recognition. If it happens, fine, but it doesn't bother me that it's not there.

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

The whole concept of awards is silly. I cannot abide by the judgment of other people, because if you accept it when they say you deserve an award, then you have to accept it when they say you don't.

You want the industry to finally admit that you're good. But I'm still good without their admission.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If you don't write, you don't eat." We all want to be respected and appreciated, but when you get a big honor like winning the Pulitzer, people start to look for your work in a new way with higher expectations. Today, the best thing about having won is when I get a nasty comment from some internet troll I can remind myself of the Pulitzer and say, "Well, somebody appreciates me".

A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times.

I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.

We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.