Jim Crace Quotes

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

Awards don't really mean much.

I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

Well, I think awards are pretty meaningless.

I am not doing films for awards.

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career, I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

In 2007, I had on-paper success. I got to go to that Aspen comedy festival, which was pretty exclusive, I guess. Then I did Carson Daly. That was enough validation.

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

You don't really work for awards, but when they come it's... nice.

The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

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.

This is the thing I have with awards: If awards would make your movie more pretty, I would really get super excited about it. But your movie's done. You get awards, you don't get awards... They don't make your movie more ugly or pretty.

I don't really care about awards.

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

I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.

I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.

For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.

I don't give much thought to individual awards.

I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.