Amy Adams Quotes

I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

I'm grand once I keep winning trophies. That's all that counts.

My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.

Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.

I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

Awards bolster your confidence in wonderful ways. But they aren't the world.

I want to be great. I want to prove to everybody that I am great.

My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn't be the thing that defines you in the first place.

I don't think it's wrong to have a big ego. Sometimes a big ego can help you also.

When you first come out of the box, you want to play the 300-capacity place, then it's 1,600-capacity, then it's an arena - so, do you want to be in a stadium now? The ego keeps telling you that it's not enough.

In my mind, I always felt like I was worthy. I really felt like, with my career and just the way I did it, it was Hall of Fame-worthy.

Don't let awards get the best of you.

I've never been a trophy guy.

When I first got two stars, I didn't think I deserved it. Now I have three I think I am worthy.

I don't trust too much in personal trophies.

Every year I win, everything I do, it cements my legacy.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

You want to be the best at your position. And if people think of me as one of the best ever, that's the ultimate compliment.

No matter how many people celebrate your gifts, don't ever think that you are more important to them than your gift is to them. This is why many people fail: They fail because they think that people came to follow them.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.