Professional Accolades Quotes

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

I've had a fantastic career.

I'm proud of all my films. I've enjoyed great success in many different genres. I have been very blessed to have so many ideas and to continuously produce successful films.

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.

Nearly every industry in America, from carbon trading to bricklaying, hosts its own back-slapping awards night.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars.

I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

My brother has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, which I find so totally impressive.

I believe in an artiste's life, there are two kinds of awards - first is the appreciation and good wishes he or she gets for his work from the audience and secondly, the recognition in the form of awards.

One thing about winning a Pulitzer, it means you know what the first three words of your obituary will be: Pulitzer Prize-winner. After winning the Pulitzer, I couldn't help but notice how people suddenly looked at me with a newfound respect, and would say, "He's an expert." On the negative side, I developed a terrible case of writer's block for awhile, because I felt like readers would expect every one of my columns to be prize worthy.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.