Luise Rainer Quotes

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

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

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.

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!

I'll never get a Humanitas Award, but I'll have fun.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

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

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

I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage.

I love working with Oscar winners.

We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.

I think they're an incredible honor. I'm grateful and flattered by them. But I have no control over winning awards - I have no control over any of that.

For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy... delighted. There is nothing more after this. I cannot hope to get anything more prestigious.

I don't think you can ever get bored of winning awards.

I have never won a single award - National or Filmfare - and I just hope they don't give me a Lifetime Achievement Award because I won't accept it.

I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.

Toilets are the best place for awards.

I was excited to be nominated for the Grammy, but prizes are a little strange.