Patrick Marber Quotes

I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.

People who are successful should never forget that it's 90 per cent luck. You've got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - 'Blankety Blank,' the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I'm nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.

I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

I'll never get a Humanitas Award, but I'll have fun.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

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

Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.

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

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

I wish that I could take credit for the success of 'Frozen' and 'Hamilton.' But I just feel lucky to be in 'em.

I've been very, very, very, very fortunate, and I'm very grateful for my career and that, at 60, I won an Emmy.

I'm always amazed when anybody remembers anything of my work, and even more so when I get nominated for something I've done. For many years, I was like a horse wearing a pair of blinkers as far as using these awards or nominations in order to boost my career was concerned.

I honestly don't care about individual awards or statistics.