Quotes about Award

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious. Votes: 3

Not everything's made to win an Academy Award. Votes: 3

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award Votes: 3

I'll never get a Humanitas Award, but I'll have fun. Votes: 3

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of. Votes: 3

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of, Votes: 3

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.' Votes: 3

I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award. Votes: 3

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award. Votes: 3

What does the Academy Award mean? I don't think it means much of anything. Votes: 3

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American. Votes: 3

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure Votes: 3

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure. Votes: 3

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award. Votes: 3

It's going to be tough (winning the MVP Award). I'm not really considered a media darling. Votes: 3

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award. Votes: 3

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. Votes: 3

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. Votes: 3

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. Votes: 3

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's. Votes: 3

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. Votes: 3

Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. Votes: 3

Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them. Votes: 3

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why. Votes: 3

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year. Votes: 3

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered. Votes: 3

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. Votes: 3

I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool. Votes: 3

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat. Votes: 3

My dad sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.' Votes: 3

I have to say that my biggest Award is performing in front of my fans. Their love is my award. Votes: 3

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early! Votes: 3

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store. Votes: 3

BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles. Votes: 3

The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy Award voter with a tampon in her purse. Votes: 3

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig. Votes: 3

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award. Votes: 3

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence. Votes: 3

I never set out now to get a Grammy, or get an American Music Award, but it still is nice to be recognized. Votes: 3

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance. Votes: 3

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18! Votes: 3

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that. Votes: 3

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. Votes: 3

I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. Votes: 3

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents. Votes: 3

It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective. Votes: 3

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest. Votes: 3

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Lucy Fisher were honored with the annual award. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005. Votes: 3

Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted. Votes: 3

If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations. Votes: 3

I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award. Votes: 3

Who doesn't want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn't grow up wanting to be the best? I'm no different. I want to be the best. I've always wanted to be the best. Votes: 3

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.' Votes: 3

America's economic strength depends on industry's ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that's why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important. Votes: 3

I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever. Votes: 3

Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal. Votes: 3

You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message. Votes: 3

The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award. Votes: 3

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. Votes: 3

Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973. Votes: 3

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award Votes: 3

Of all the awards, the Stand-up Comic Audience Award is our favorite. It is a chance to honor the performers who spend much of their careers developing their craft and working in the comedy clubs all over America. Votes: 3

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house. Votes: 3

New Rule: There's only one thing to say about the Christian Film and Television Commission giving me the Bigoted Bile Award and naming Religulous the number-one Most Unbearable Movie of 2008: Thank you! You hate me, you really hate me! Votes: 3

Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children. Votes: 3

The Night Journal received two awards that I'm terribly proud of - -the Spur from Western Writers of America, and the Willa Literary Award from Women Writing the West. Both these groups are filled with great writers and good people. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force. Votes: 3

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966. Votes: 3

I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor. Votes: 3

Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R. Votes: 3

Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Votes: 3

I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for "LA Confidential" which was great. Votes: 3

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement. Votes: 3

It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script. Votes: 3

The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class. Votes: 3

Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry. Votes: 3

I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, i remember Clifford Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears. Votes: 3

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'. Votes: 3

Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you, not me, not the girl next door - who wouldn't like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night. Votes: 3

Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away. Votes: 3

Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election! Votes: 3

Seeing babies and little children smile or even just be inquisitive about a bottle cap isnpires me. Watching a great performance, particularly live or in the moment. My favorite actor at the moment is the three-time Tony Award-winning Mark Rylance. Makes me work to be better. Votes: 3

We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise. Votes: 3

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same. Votes: 3

I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer. Votes: 3

I've worked for everything I've ever got and it's worked out. Even if I was the Cy Young Award winner I still would not want to feel that sense of entitlement. I would still treat every game like it's my very first game and my very last game. Votes: 3

This is a tremendous honor (winning the 2002 Roberto Clemente Award), to be considered in the same class as Roberto Clemente. He is a hero and role model for all of us who play the game and strive to be as good a player and person as he was. Votes: 3

The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge. Votes: 3

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story. Votes: 3

"Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He won a British Press Award for his coverage of the 2002 Moscow theater siege in which 130 hostages were killed. He's covered Russian politics and the war in Ukraine. Votes: 3

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award. Votes: 3

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award. Votes: 2

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward. Votes: 1

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music. Votes: 1

It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special. Votes: 1

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. Votes: 1

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale. Votes: 1

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days. Votes: 1

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. Votes: 1

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees. Votes: 1

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. Votes: 1

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment. Votes: 1

I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win this award - I'm still Sam at the end of the day. And that's what defines me. Votes: 1

Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you. Votes: 1

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. Votes: 1

I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you. Votes: 1

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more. Votes: 1

An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences. Votes: 1

It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true. Votes: 1

I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math. Votes: 1

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally. Votes: 1

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough. Votes: 1

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. Votes: 1

Acknowledgment, award, appreciation. Votes: 0

You mustn't take any award so seriously. Votes: 0

I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly. Votes: 0

If I don't win, the award show loses credibility. Votes: 0

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor. Votes: 0

The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won. Votes: 0

I stopped singing and they gave me an award. Votes: 0

An award does not change the quality of a book. Votes: 0

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili. Votes: 0

I think the Grammy is like the award, you know. Votes: 0

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates. Votes: 0

Getting to the playoffs is more important than winning an award. Votes: 0

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort. Votes: 0

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength. Votes: 0

The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial. Votes: 0

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny. Votes: 0

I dont need an award to inspire me to keep making music. Votes: 0

Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy. Votes: 0

A 'GQ' award is kind of, like, insane. It's a huge thing. Votes: 0

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted, Votes: 0

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid Votes: 0

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. Votes: 0

At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear. Votes: 0

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, its a very humbling thing. Votes: 0

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing. Votes: 0

It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing. Votes: 0

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances. Votes: 0

I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list. Votes: 0

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with. Votes: 0

Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award. Votes: 0

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one. Votes: 0

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work. Votes: 0

For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism. Votes: 0

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. Votes: 0

Is there an award for the best trophy? I bet they hand out a plaque. Votes: 0

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me. Votes: 0

I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas. Votes: 0

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990]. Votes: 0

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get. Votes: 0

The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online. Votes: 0

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. Votes: 0

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out. Votes: 0

I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Votes: 0

The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment. Votes: 0

Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent. Votes: 0

On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy Krueger. Granuaile MacTiernan Votes: 0

Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia. Votes: 0

I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now. Votes: 0

An achievement award is not the end goal; but rather a symbolic confirmation of your potential future success. Votes: 0

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor. Votes: 0

No matter what the award is, you put the right presenters on there, and that award becomes fun. Votes: 0

It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55. Votes: 0

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels. Votes: 0

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. Votes: 0

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque. Votes: 0

Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that. Votes: 0

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter. Votes: 0

Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that, Votes: 0

If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards. Votes: 0

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play. Votes: 0

I would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a 'Song of the Year' award. Votes: 0

God is not looking for incredibly high notes, intricate riffs or award winning ad-libbing. God is looking at the heart. Votes: 0

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show. Votes: 0

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar. Votes: 0

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. Votes: 0

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award. Votes: 0

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much. Votes: 0

It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out. Votes: 0

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool. Votes: 0

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. Votes: 0

Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament. Votes: 0

I'm just tryna stay alive and take care of my people And they don't have no award for that Trophies, trophies Votes: 0

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all. Votes: 0

Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony. Votes: 0

It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year. Votes: 0

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. Votes: 0

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. Votes: 0

Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling. Votes: 0

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross. Votes: 0

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring. Votes: 0

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. Votes: 0

Any chick that I handle, I teach ‘em patience. How not to win the award but be glad for your nomination. Votes: 0

Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating. Votes: 0

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award. Votes: 0

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay. Votes: 0

[Didier] Drogba sent me a text message after I won the African Player of the Year award. It made me very happy. Votes: 0

My mother thinks I'm a national treasure. She's the only one who thinks my Golden Kela award is the greatest gift ever. Votes: 0

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky! Votes: 0

The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game. Votes: 0

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award. Votes: 0

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second. Votes: 0

If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award. Votes: 0

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it. Votes: 0

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award? Votes: 0

I agree to the fight. The award, which is getting for these hardships, it is exorbitantly large. It is the joy of life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To get the Nickelodeon award? That's like 'it.' It's one of the best. It's definitely where you want to be in your career. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic. Votes: 0

I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album. Votes: 0

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. Votes: 0

An award would be more prestigious if it came with a supplemental income for a year, so you could focus on repeating your title. Votes: 0

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah. Votes: 0

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture. Votes: 0

Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying. Votes: 0

Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise. Votes: 0

Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities. Votes: 0

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction. Votes: 0

It's nice to win an award, I would assume. I've never won one, but I would imagine it's great. I have no idea what I'll do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts. Votes: 0

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more. Votes: 0

It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award. Votes: 0

All souls can earn IMMORTALITY.The Creators have IMMORTALITY.The Creators are the' ONLY' ONES'To award IMMORTALITYFROM MY BOOK: War between Souls over First Universe Justice Awaits Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

(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. Votes: 0

All souls can earn IMMORTALITY.The Creators have IMMORTALITY.The Creators are the' ONLY' ONES'To award IMMORTALITY...FROM MY BOOK: War between Souls over First Universe Justice Awaits Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television. Votes: 0

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately. Votes: 0

I think that this win [Grammy] in particular was a cool moment for me and the director [Emil Nava], because it was the first award he's ever won. Votes: 0

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward. Votes: 0

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Frank Sebastiano is a real write. He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Chris Rock Show' . The only award I have is an FM-mmy. Votes: 0

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. Votes: 0

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel. Votes: 0

The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down. Votes: 0

If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break in to the Ohio penitentiary. Votes: 0

Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look. Votes: 0

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing, Votes: 0

They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy. Votes: 0

Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that. Votes: 0

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s. Votes: 0

We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan. Votes: 0

I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Neither praise or 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. Votes: 0

GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award-winning vehicles and components produced in Canada. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only bad taste, it's bad strategy-and I will not tolerate it as president. Votes: 0

The fact that "Léon: The Professional" doesn't have every award in the world is a sign that it is underrated. I'm not even ashamed to say that I cried during every scene. Votes: 0

There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar. Votes: 0

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it. Votes: 0

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles. Votes: 0

Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades. Votes: 0

The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction. Votes: 0

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I can't understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he doesn't seek the limelight like some of the other 'stars'. Votes: 0

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up. Votes: 0

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange. Votes: 0

The chickens bounced onto the pink and purple bush and landed on Annika's head." It's funny because nobody has ever said that before. I should get an award or something because I just made history! Votes: 0

The audience's reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it's because they love how we've acted. That's the most beautiful award. It's very important for me, people appreciating what I do. Votes: 0

The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award. Votes: 0