Lee Ann Womack Quotes

It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?

I don't have any expectations.

I don't know where my medals are.

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

I'm not going to pretend that I never fantasized about winning the Hugo. Or the Nebula, for that matter. I just never thought it was an actual real possibility.

Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn't know.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

I would hate to be in a situation where my entire focus was obsessing around the issue of whether we're going to win best picture.

I didn't think 'The Room' was going to really go anywhere. But you know, in the back of your mind, you hope that any project you do is going to to go somewhere.

You go to the Grammys and you say, 'I don't care if I win or not,' and of course you care.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I know awards give great responsibilities and audience will certainly expect more from you.