Award Quotes

It's really wonderful that it's the whole franchise being recognized and it's a collective award. Each film has anywhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people working on it and so really the award is for each and every one of us. We are like a family.

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

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.

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.

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.

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

I was surprised I won the award because I've always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I'm an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players.

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.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

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.

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

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