I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
If I am ever forced to choose between my identity as a Tamilian and an award from the central government, I will choose the former.
I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.
You'll never see me at award ceremonies.
Bollywood is a great place. You can expect support for award ceremonies, weddings, and funerals.
It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.
Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.
That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.
I haven't experienced college life. It's the phase that my character in 'Raanjhana' is set in. But it isn't that bad, either. I have nearly 30 films behind me and a National Award to boot.
The consolidated appreciation that 'Eega' is the pride of the Telugu film industry is the biggest award I can get.
I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.
I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don't see that solo voice that was the trademark of Adele. It's no accident that it was her album that ended up selling 27 million copies worldwide.
School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.
I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.
Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.
As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.