Brett Ratner Quotes

I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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.

I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

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

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

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage.

Just wanna have plaques on plaques. That's what we goin' for.

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.

At the end of a career you're desperate more than ever for medals, grabbing as much as you can as you go.

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

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've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

Entertainer of the Year, to me, there's never been any question that that's one on my bucket list that I want. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you. If there's one that I ever could get - I would trade all the rest of them in for that one.

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.

I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

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

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

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

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

I never went out looking for glory.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.