Awards Quotes

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

I don't care about awards and public image. We know the business of entertainment. We worship our work, we worship our clients and we worship profitability.

Awards don't really mean much.

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?

I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.

My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

Not everything's made to win an Academy Award.

If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

I love awards, especially if I get them.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

I was at awards shows and felt really lost so it was good to play someone who was really lost.

Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike.

Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please.

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

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

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

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

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

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!

I dont need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

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

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.