Awards Quotes

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If you want to be a great copywriter, please your reader.

It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

Indian film awards lack credibility.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

No matter what the award is, you put the right presenters on there, and that award becomes fun.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!

I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.

The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.