Sanaa Lathan Quotes

I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey's disabled uncle if I'm going to apologise for that.

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

To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.

The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.

Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it.

For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.

It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me.

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

The fact that I've been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.

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

To be mentioned as a Test captain was a big surprise.

When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember coming back from the location to the Oriental Hotel and hearing someone yelling across the reception area, 'You've won the Tony!' It was wonderful and strange to be halfway around the world.

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

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.

I never thought I'd say the sentence 'It was a real honour' - because that implies that you've done something pretty special. But now I've done that several times. Yesterday I was in Buckingham Palace - I actually met the Queen yesterday and that was an honour. I never thought I'd do something like that.

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.

Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.