Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

My Emmy is in my china closet. People don't really look at it, though.

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.

It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

I have an Oscar on my mantel.

I am certainly humbled to receive the American Voice Award and join the ranks of so many people that I admire.

It's great to be able to fight in Dallas, but to be the main event for a fight card in Dallas is an honor in itself.

The fact that I've been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.

Now, all the people who spoke before, when I won the Golden Ball, have shut their mouths now the coaches and players from national teams have given me this prize and this recognition.

Any award the NBA gives you, whether it's on the court or off the court, it's definitely an honor.

When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember coming back from the location to the Oriental Hotel and hearing someone yelling across the reception area, 'You've won the Tony!' It was wonderful and strange to be halfway around the world.

It's humbling and an honor to be named AP Player of the Year, to be mentioned in the same realm as a lot of great players, a lot of hall of famers.

It would mean a lot, but it's weird, because what's the title? It's an extra line on your Wikipedia page and a medal that says you won on that particular night. It obviously symbolizes more than that, but those are the things people think about.

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride.

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing.

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

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

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

Are you kidding? This is crazy, man. I thought I was Mr. Pre-Televised awards.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.