Dmitri Alperovitch Quotes

Year after year, the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.

A 'GQ' award is kind of, like, insane. It's a huge thing.

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of.

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest.

An overall title is one of the biggest things you can win in our sport.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

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.

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to be my biggest achievement to date. Meeting Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, etc., has been an amazing experience that even now gives me goose bumps when I think about it.

To get the Nickelodeon award? That's like 'it.' It's one of the best. It's definitely where you want to be in your career.

I have an Oscar on my mantel.

Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.

I want to get me one of those titles.

Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.

For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy... delighted. There is nothing more after this. I cannot hope to get anything more prestigious.

When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.