Awards Quotes

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

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

I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.

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.

When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor.

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things that you never expect, but getting the head nod from either the fans or your peers, that's the ultimate compliment.

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

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.

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.

Awards don't really mean much.

Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

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.

I love awards, especially if I get them.

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.

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

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

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.