Parts win prizes, not actors.

- Alan Rickman

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

- Craig Venter

I don't value prizes of any sort.

- David Hockney

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

- Doris Lessing

The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.

- Ernest Walton

I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.

- Emma Donoghue

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

- Glen Duncan

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

- Herbert Simon

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

- Katharine Hepburn

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

- Lina Wertmuller

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

- Norman Jewison

Incentive prizes work.

- Peter Diamandis

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

- Steve Toltz

If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

- Val McDermid