Chunky Pandey Quotes

I don't believe in awards, and I think only film fare awards are faring.

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

Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.

You'll never see me at award ceremonies.

My general feeling about award shows that I've been to in the past was always that when you win, it's a great time. What a joy. You're celebrating there. And when you lose, the whole thing feels very stupid and why does anyone care about any of this. This is boring. I want to go home.

I've not won different awards - many, many times - so luckily I've practiced that whenever you are nominated for anything, you enter into this marvelous, fantabulous bubble called the bubble of nomination. The minute the envelope is opened and your name isn't called out, the bubble bursts. And no one calls you up the next day to say, 'So sorry you didn't win,' or 'You looked gorgeous - nothing. If you win, you get about another 24 hours in that lovely bubble and then - pop - you are slightly wet all over from the bubble and realize that you have to get on with real life.

You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.

I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.

I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.

You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

I love my role in 'Deshamuduru' but I did not get any award.

I love the Empire Awards. It is really different and laid back.

My dream was to be a celebrity, to be on TV like Bob Hope was.

I was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award 19 times before I won. The first nine years, I heard someone else's name called; after that - I think it was a protective thing - I didn't hear whose name was called, but nobody was making eye contact with me, so I knew that it wasn't mine.

To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's still an incredible feeling to know I won. But as happy as I am about winning, I also know many other women of color have directed amazing films over the years that were equally deserving and didn't win.

I meet celebrities all the time, but I have no idea who they are because I don't watch television.

I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated Film.

I don't expect to win awards while working in films.

Bollywood is a great place. You can expect support for award ceremonies, weddings, and funerals.

Actually, nobody has ever given me an award, and also, it's not really important in my life. I go to these award shows for meeting my friends.

I'm a member of BAFTA, so I vote in all the films that come up for the Academy Awards.

I find award functions laughable. To me, it is just like an extension of a college annual day function.

Your film is a hit, you bathe in champagne; it flops, a single malt lessens the pain.

L.A. is big, although Hollywood's not as glamorous as I thought; it's kind of grungy.

Awards are an encouragement. An award is not something we aim at while making a film.