Awards Quotes

My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

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.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened.

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

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

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

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.

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