Awards Quotes

Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.

On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.

I never set out now to get a Grammy, or get an American Music Award, but it still is nice to be recognized.

Honestly I can truly say, it would be, nice, but I don't feel like I got to get a Grammy or something to feel official. I'm cool but it would be nice Grammy Awards!

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

I got my Backstage Bistro Award, I should just retire. You know, that's a good question and I guess it's really really different for everybody.

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.

Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.

The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

I only wanna go up the steps toward a different level of stardom. The BET Awards was one of those steps, the VMAs was another huge step. And the next step, eventually, hopefully, would be the Oscars.

On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy Krueger. Granuaile MacTiernan

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers.

I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.

After having edited numerous shorts, earning award nominations for it, and then 4 features edits, the director inside me is now burning to share its voice. Thriller, Horror, zany Comedy.

I was living in the U.K. I was back in New Zealand for the New Zealand Music Awards, which is like our annual New Zealand GRAMMYs.

I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.

I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.

I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

I accept all awards. I like them.

Awards are great, but they're not who you are, and pop culture isn't who you are.

As a major country music fan, the CMA awards are my favorite!

MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.