Top 424 Award Quotes

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

I never thought I would get a National Award. For me, it was huge, and I got complacent.

Winning a State film award for ‘Nandanam’ had me sit up and realise that cinema was my bread and butter and that I had to be sincere to my work.

I won an Academy Award for ‘The Cider House Rules,’ playing an American.

When you give someone an award and you tell them that they are the best female chef in the world, you alienate them from their peers.

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

I am immensely overwhelmed and thankful to Filmfare and the Times Of India Group for bestowing on my father and my guru the honor he truly deserves. It is prodigious to see the Best Music Album Award being named in memory of the man who pioneered and changed the face of music industry in India.

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

Most actresses save their best gown of the award season for the Academy, so it truly is a red carpet full of the fashion’s creme de la creme.

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.

I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.

I think what’s going to happen with linear television is it’s going to become more linear. It’s going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports – all those things that, really, you can’t replicate.

They called me Little Milla. He was one of the best in the world, not just in Africa. A lot of us think he did not win the best player in the world award just because he was African. It was an honour to have the name – he was an inspiration.

The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it’s as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.

The IMPAC is a terribly important award.

The Heisman Trophy is such a special award.

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.

I don’t attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for ‘Virginia Woolf’ in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, ‘I hope we can use our art for peace and love.’

Award functions are a big sham. It’s a money-making television programme.

‘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.

An award should be earned based on an actor’s ability and not be just given as a present.

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.

I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don’t see that solo voice that was the trademark of Adele. It’s no accident that it was her album that ended up selling 27 million copies worldwide.

When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honor. I didn’t really realize how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.

My manager told me that a kid who was in a coma woke up after ten days when they played him one of my songs. That now means more to me than winning any award.

I was thrilled when this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature went to Neal Schusterman’s ‘Challenger Deep.’ This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it’s received.

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

Saying Kaepernick is a distraction is based largely on opinion. You could say his decision to kneel for the national anthem was detrimental to the team. If that is so, I would hope you’d note that Kaepernick’s teammates gave him the Len Eshmont Award at the end of the season.

If you’re in Bollywood and working in any category, and you receive a Filmfare Award for it, it’s a huge thing for any creative person.

I acted in ‘Almost Famous.’ My album ‘Fingerprints’ won a Grammy Award in 2007. Even more prestigious, as far as my kids were concerned, I appeared in episodes of ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Family Guy.’

After winning the World Cup and the European Footballer of the Year award too, I do not think I can ask for anything else.

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.

If you’re not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?

I don’t know about you, but for me, if I got to present any kind of award, I’m shaking in my pants.

I’m so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It’s deeply rewarding and not a little humbling to be honored by such a talented tribe of writers.

My biggest achievement more than any award is contributing in a winning cause for my team.

I want to become a movie director and win an Academy Award. That’s what I’m trying to do.

When I went to Baylor on a basketball scholarship – and when I thought about the future as a freshman – one achievement I wanted more than any individual award was a national championship.

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.

It’s incredible to win an individual award in a team sport and also one where everybody wants to be able to say, ‘I’m the best.’

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

Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I’d done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.

I won an award for my debut film. However, my career went up and down after that but I kept getting work. I did whatever excited me and did not think which role or film will change my career.

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.

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.

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.

Out of so many international stars from U.S., France, Russia and Italy, I was the one who bagged the first Frownie Award. It is a humbling feeling.

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.

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

I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.

It’s overwhelming and humbling to be the recipient of a National Award, and I only hope to find scripts now that will solidify that honor.

I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.

I don’t like award ceremonies.

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

I think every artist wants to have that ‘Grammy award winner’ tag in front of their name.

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

I got the Margaret Sanger award. I was kissed by President Obama.

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