I was fortunate and worked hard to graduate top of my class as a primary school teacher and receive the Vere Foster Award, which is the medal given to the graduate who attains the highest mark in teaching practice.
I go for a couple of parties; you won’t find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried attending for the first three to four years, and I’ve performed at award shows. I sat in them, and I’ve also exited pretty fast from them. It’s just not my place. I’d rather get their adulation in a cinema hall.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women’s rights activities is one I treasure.
It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like ‘Goon Squad’ could win an award like that. It’s such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I’ll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.
If you’re at an award ceremony, you’re against your mates.
Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don’t have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.
For me, it’s more important to win a team award, like a World Cup.
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I’m doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.
I don’t believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, ‘West Side Story.’
I’ll be honest with you: I’d rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it’s just cool.
I would never win an award for not loving pizza.
It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, ‘Weird!’
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.
Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
When you get performance slots for award shows – that’s a big deal for me.
I get nervous before everything – dates, filming, award shows. I just don’t want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I’m with.
I think in order to accomplish anything in life, you have to visualize yourself there – accepting the award, hearing your song on the radio, whatever it is – or you lose the willpower and the drive.
I got an award for Most Improved Player for volleyball in tenth grade that I cared about a lot.
There are many great players to have won the adidas Golden Ball Award, and it is a great privilege to receive this award and be part of this select group of players.
I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!
I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I’m now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.
When I recieved the Padmabhushan it was a happy moment no doubt, but it was not something I sought desperately to win. I never worked towards the award.
White people are very good at acting like they’re not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.
I’m not a huge award type person, that’s not really what lights my fire.
The first award I ever won was for Best New Artist from the ACMs, so they always will hold a special place in my heart.
It’d be really neat if I wasn’t a Darwin Award winner.
I’m thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he’s won an Academy Award, he’s talking to me about directing a movie he’s in. So you just think that it’s Hollywood stuff or whatever.
It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, ‘Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.’
Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it’s not where you start but where you end up.
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
I couldn’t stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.
In 1975 I had the award for the top male artist, the award for top single, the award for top album.
I’d say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I’d won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.
I have won so many awards including the Padma Shri and Arjuna Award. But all these awards do not carry the kind of prestige they did once.
It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling.
In 2013, after a challenging two years of long-term IV antibiotics and six weeks at a clinic in florida, I received the ‘Star Light’ award from the Lyme Research Alliance for my advocacy and strength to light the way of Lyme disease awareness.
I’m not that ambitious chick. I’m not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I’ve just never been that girl. I’ve always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he’s already blessed me with a lot.
I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I’ve spent enough time in audition rooms. I don’t want to be doing that in my afterlife.
It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn’t go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.
Look at Jay-Z and Beyonce. Everybody knew Jay and Beyonce were dating. They were sitting around at award shows together like they weren’t together for a while before they came out and said whatever. But your life doesn’t always have to be exposed. There are a lot of people whose personal lives aren’t exposed.
I am really happy that my daughter Janhvi has been honoured with the ‘Arets Stjerneskudd’ award as the rising talent of the year by Royal Norwegian Consulate General.
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.
You can wish to have an Oscar someday or some other award, but Life Achievement? You don’t see yourself that way.
If I was a research scientist, I’d want people to say, ‘You know what, he’s a great research scientist, that Ricky Gervais. He’s really good, really good.’ You know, I’d go to award ceremonies for research scientists and go, ‘Yeah, I really worked hard, yeah.’ It’s brilliant.
The United Nations Award for India’s efforts in the field of environment conservation has made every Indian proud.
Whether its the National Award, the Padma Bhushan, or several others, nothing will make an artiste happier than the appreciation from the man on the street.
Awards are an encouragement. An award is not something we aim at while making a film.
I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, ‘What’s your end game? What’s your goal with this?’ And I said to him, ‘You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.’ And he said, ‘OK’.
I am not after any award. Love and affection of the audience is the biggest award for me.
The National Award is a matter of pride for me, and it has also increased my responsibilities towards the country.
I won my first singing award with ‘Auliya.’
What’s hurtful is when you have portrayals like, you know, when you have someone like Jared Leto who accepts an award for ‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ after playing a trans woman, standing in a full beard and looking fully cis male: it is communicating to our audiences that underneath all of that, it’s still a man under that.
You don’t get time to meet your peers such as Dharmendra and Hema Malini very often. Award functions or other events are the only places you meet them, unless there is an emergency. Then we all come together.
I believe that when Fifa hands out an award, it should not be a marketing prize that solely honours the protagonists of a media-crazy sport.
You watch award shows, and not only are you not nominated, but you’re not a presenter and haven’t been invited to any of the parties.
My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn’t be the thing that defines you in the first place.
I was 18 when I was presented with the Arjuna Award. To say it feels really good would be an understatement. But I don’t know how else to convey the feeling. I am grateful for having received this prestigious award at such a young age.
