Parineeti Chopra Quotes

I'd made this film called 'This Little Life,' and it went round the fests and won awards and did well.

Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

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 am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees.

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

I didn't ever imagine, except in the most idle, obviously wish-fulfillment, ego-gratification fantasies, that anything I wrote would ever win awards, let alone so many.

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'

I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'

I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'

At the beginning of my career, I worked for a lot of people who nobody knew, who have come up to be people that everybody knows.

It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'