Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
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 would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.
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 for young people. They just are.
Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
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.