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You don't want to make awards the reason you're doing things.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

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 accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.

I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.

I don't feel I have to acknowledge how I'm doing by an award.

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.

Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem.