Awards Quotes

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.

I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

If I don't win, the award show loses credibility.

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.

I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

[Didier] Drogba sent me a text message after I won the African Player of the Year award. It made me very happy.

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.

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.

Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

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

It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable.

I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.

It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing 'Crank,' and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done.

Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy.

I do not know why anyone would host an awards show. No matter how unbelievably well you do at it, the only thing that can happen is you get asked again to host an awards show.

Songwriting is my true passion and that's what the BMI awards are all about.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

I think life awards you if have your priorities in the right place.