Jakob Dylan Quotes

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 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.

As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest.

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.

The tag of a 'National Award winner' earned me a lot of respect from a lot of people. I like that in a way.

I am going to go on with my life, and if they call me and say 'Yo, you are going to be in the Hall of Fame or you are going to be in this,' then I am going to say, 'So be it.' If I make it, I will go to the ceremony, and I'll have fun.

I am completely grateful and pleased for the attention and the recognition I've received for playing the roles that I've played.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.

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

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 not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

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.

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

I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

I was so grateful to win an Emmy, but just being nominated, it's not overrated!

I am beyond blessed and humbled to be named the Paul Hornung Award winner.

I had never thought that so many people would know me, will talk about me, and most of all, I will be given a National Award.

Any time you are in a position where your peers plus the people who paid your bills all your life are honoring you, it doesn't get a hell of a lot better than that.

Maybe I'll never get the Grammy. But maybe I will get things that are worth much, much more than any Grammy which could stand on my shelf.

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

If the hall of fame happens, what a tremendous honor. But it's just icing on the cake.