Morgan Freeman Quotes

We simply must do better.

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

Your hard work and talent will not pay off.

This is the honest-to-God truth: I just focus on the work, because if my work isn't good, then I won't succeed either way.

I don't think it's a bad thing at all to get recognized for things that you've done on the field.

This is something that everyone has to understand: you don't win anything on your reputation.

You are not guaranteed to be part of that story if you don't perform.

I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought. It encourages our business to be competitive in absolutely the wrong way. We're not sportsmen; we're not trying to come in first.

I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.

When you do your best, people notice.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

It's the best fifth place I've ever had.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.