Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes

The Grammys to me, well, that's my peers. That's the industry thinking what I do is good.

No matter what, people have to respect my accomplishments.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.

I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.

This is the thing I have with awards: If awards would make your movie more pretty, I would really get super excited about it. But your movie's done. You get awards, you don't get awards... They don't make your movie more ugly or pretty.

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

I don't really care about awards.

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

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've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

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.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

To be mentioned in the same breath as people I admire means everything to me.

I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.

I don't think about awards when I set out to do something. If that happens, it's great.

I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.

I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.

Having the respect of your peers means the world to me.