Kate Fleetwood Quotes

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.

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 never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

I love working with Oscar winners.

There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.'

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

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.

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.

My drum sticks are in the 'Hall of Fame.' I know that.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

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 thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

I have a Tony Award now. It hasn't changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and TV stuff, where people will see me more easily now because they know me.

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.