Top 141 Nominated Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Nominated Quotes from famous people such as Neal Katyal, Bill Dedman, Busy Philipps, Brett Kavanaugh, Suzanne Fields, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Traditionally, in America, we have accountability as kind of a key feature of each branch of government in some way. So, you know, you obviously have to run for office. Or if you’re a judge, you’ve got to be nominated by political officials and so on.
Neal Katyal
When Goldberg’s ‘Liberal Fascism’ came out in January 2008, his employer ‘National Review Online’ announced that Tribune Media Services, which carries Goldberg’s opinion columns, had ‘nominated’ Goldberg for a Pulitzer in commentary.
Bill Dedman
For the most part, these awards shows, while they are fun, they’re high-pressure for the people who are nominated and for those walking the red carpet.
Busy Philipps
The Senate should consider a rule ensuring that every judicial nominee receives a vote by the Senate within 180 days of being nominated by the president.
Brett Kavanaugh
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.
Suzanne Fields
We can avoid liberal candidates by filtering them out at the local level, nipping their ascension to power in the proverbial bud by assuring they don’t get nominated in the first place – and we can’t do that until we infiltrate the party, beginning at the most basic levels.
Dana Loesch
I think I got nominated in the MTV Brand New Top 10 because I’m 3x world time karate champion, and I’d probably just beat everyone up if they didn’t put me in it. They were all scared!
Anne-Marie
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
Rita Mae Brown
The best thing about being nominated in a category like best new play is realizing there were enough new plays to make a category.
Stephen Karam
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.
Pat Morita
It was more than enough, but I’m completely satisfied that ‘Virtual Self’ got nominated for the Grammy. That is a complete victory for the project in my mind and anything else is just bonus.
Porter Robinson
One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn’t think I deserved it.
Miranda Lambert
Awards are wonderful. I’ve been nominated many times and I’ve won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn’t, it’s still been a blast.
Tom Cruise
The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I’ve coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.
Jacki Weaver
When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d’Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don’t know what will happen. This pressure is inside you – you always have it.
Cristiano Ronaldo
I want to be nominated for Grammys.
Sara Evans
I’m not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it’s nice to be nominated.
Sally Rooney
I was nominated as one of the most promising entrepreneurs by a business magazine a long time back. I worked in Telco way back in 1993 and then started my leather business.
Rahul Dev
It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy.
Sheila E.
In Hollywood, she’s revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I’ve never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, ‘Oh, I love Winona Ryder.’
Jennifer Lopez
I’ve watched the Emmys for almost my whole life, so it was crazy to finally be there in the audience clapping and actually going on stage. Hopefully one day I’ll get to be actually nominated.
Millie Bobby Brown
Being nominated is such a tremendous honor. An Oscar win for me and for the ‘Strong Island’ team would be the cap to an incredible journey. But it would also mean that my brother will not disappear from history.
Yance Ford
The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
Florence Pugh
I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for ‘Spring Awakening,’ it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale.
Jonathan Groff
I won my husband. I won my kids. I’ve won a lot of really great jobs. I’ve won a lot of friendships. I’ve been nominated for lots of different kinds of awards.
Renee Elise Goldsberry
When I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, I felt that this should go to all of the Hong Kong people who fight for democracy.
Joshua Wong
It’s always lovely to win trophies, have nice things said about you, and be nominated for individual awards. But I feel I can give more – a lot more – to both Lyon and England, and that is definitely my focus.
Lucy Bronze
I was nominated for a live-action short-film Academy Award in 2003.
Lexi Alexander
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.
Patrick Marber
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.
Edward Norton
In honor of Surgeon General Koop’s legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.
Richard Carmona
Mum and dad thought I was going to say I was pregnant.

Mum and dad thought I was going to say I was pregnant. I said oh no, no, I’ve just been nominated for a Golden Globe. They were like, oh that’s lovely, love.
Melissa George
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
Robert Scheer
As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.
Michael Beschloss
The Broadway run of ‘Memphis’ has been like going to the moon. It was so great to actually open at the Shubert Theatre and then amazing to be nominated for eight Tonys and attend all the luncheons and events.
David Bryan
None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar ’cause I don’t do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
Quentin Tarantino
My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 – I was nominated for best new artist of the year.
John Prine
I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn’t like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my own things. Since then, I have written a couple of shows. I was nominated for playwright of the year for a play I wrote called ‘Potential Space.’
Kirsten Vangsness
I would like to go to the Oscars. I’m not even talking about being nominated – although that would be lovely. Even if it was I won a competition on the back of a crisp packet to go to the Oscars I would like to go to the Oscars.
Ellie Taylor
There’s nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I’m nominated for an award – that is so funny to me.
T. J. Miller
Just to be nominated, and especially as a new artist and a female artist, is a feat. Winning anything is just a bonus.
Maren Morris
All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I’m nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.
Tori Kelly
‘Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
Bill Murray
I’m not the most in-tune guy with what is getting nominated and winning awards in general.
Seth Rogen
This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.
Ashley Benson
When President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, I said that he deserved a fair hearing and a vote. I said this even though Senate Republicans filibustered dozens of President Obama’s judicial nominees and then stopped President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.
Dick Durbin
I have been nominated five times for the Filmfare Award but for some unknown reasons I failed to win the award even once.
Mukesh Tiwari
In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I’d like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there’d be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.
Tim Heidecker
Though I was nominated for awards for films like ‘Tezaab’ and ‘Apna Sapna Money Money’ but I never won an award. Now I am not even nominated for any awards but still I attend the award functions as I love being there despite figuring prominently in a lot of leg pulling that goes around in the award ceremonies.
Chunky Pandey
My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
Beau Bridges
Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.
Noah Wyle
Back in high school, I didn’t ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen – there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too – no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
Halima Aden
It hasn’t been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
Gary Burton
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!
Angela Lansbury