Rod Serling Quotes

I haven't got many awards to boast of.

I have a lot of awards in my house that I have absolutely no idea what they are for.

I have never won a single award - National or Filmfare - and I just hope they don't give me a Lifetime Achievement Award because I won't accept it.

I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri.

Honors and awards are very interesting, and I truly accept them. I have very high regard for what they mean. What they mean is that they're pointing to the work.

I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought. It encourages our business to be competitive in absolutely the wrong way. We're not sportsmen; we're not trying to come in first.

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

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

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

I don't know where my medals are.

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something.

It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.

Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

One of the first bits of protocol I learned was that when awarding a woman a medal, you hand it to her.

I don't give much thought to individual awards.