Jack Kilby Quotes

Awards are lovely and always welcome.

My Hall of Fame speech was about respect for the game.

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'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

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.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

I have not won far more awards than I have won.

This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.

It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy.

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

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

When you do what I do, there are a lot of institutions that give you awards. I've gotten maybe 20 medals. They're glorious, and there's a spirit behind them. But sometimes they give you this dreadful modern glass thing. I wish everyone could afford a loving cup.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.

I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.

When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.

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

Hats off, gentlemen — if he were still alive we should not be here.

Awards are for young people. They just are.