I turned down ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brody’ with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award.
It’s interesting too, that the coach of that Georgia Tech team who led his valiant warriors to those 222 points was none other than John Heisman. Yes, he whom the Heisman trophy is named for, an award that honors that college player who best exemplifies excellence and integrity.
Here’s the thing – I mean, I don’t act for statues. I really don’t. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
I won the John Mackey Award, so I did something right.
Now I can always be called ‘Emmy winner Regina King.’ I think that in this business, it must mean something. Every time someone has won an award, and they’re announcing them or speaking about them, that prefaces their name.
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work – which I thought was okay.
It’s true that John Bolton would not win the most popular ambassador award at the U.N., but being popular shouldn’t be the priority.
‘Weedflower’ was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn’t really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience.
I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do.
I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.
You’ll never see me at award ceremonies.
In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
I’ve never won an award for anything, and I think it’s weird. I mean, that’s really cool but it’s strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face – for me that would be deserving of an award.
My dream was to win an Academy Award. But my other dream was to win the Super Bowl, and there’s a chance that might not happen, either.
Berlin was the first, the very first to give me an award. I am eternally grateful to them. It sits on my desk – the Silver Bear. All the others are stored away. It’s the only one I look at. It watches me while I work.
I think as much as people moan at things like award ceremonies, it gives people role models. It provides real positive reinforcement that you can be who you are and still massively achieve.
I had never thought that so many people would know me, will talk about me, and most of all, I will be given a National Award.
The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you’re responsible for snacks after the game.
I had placenta previa, which had me on bed rest for almost four to five months after the pregnancy. I just started putting on weight and falling into some kind of place in my head because it went from shows, award functions and a glamorous lifestyle to just not being able to handle what pregnancy was doing to me.
I heard I won ‘best butt crack’ on television recently. It’s true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it’s a closed set.
I got a Best Actress award from the Kerala government when I was 24, and I got another one when I was 42. I was more thrilled when I got it for the second time.
I always felt that I was never acknowledged for a lot of things – award shows, all of that.
You see, for the most part it was a normal upbringing. Sure, there was the Nobel Peace award; sure, there were people coming to our house who I knew were famous. But we grew up in a very modest part of the community. Our last home was in what had been one of the worst ghettos in Atlanta.
I’m honored and humbled to be named the Seasonlong NBA Community Assist Award winner.
I don’t know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it’s crazy. It’s such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It’s like winning the lottery. I’m proud to be a member of such an amazing cast – that’s the best award of all.
Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is that while I’d give my father the money I earned, anything that was special to me – like an award or an album – would be given to my mother.
The narrative of, ‘You won an award, so you’re going to skyrocket’ – it’s very emotive language but not necessarily true. I’ve definitely got auditions I wouldn’t have got before, but it’s not like jobs get rained down on you.
I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!
I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn’t buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.
I’ve had my differences with Massive Attack, but you can’t deny what they’ve done. They’ve changed the face of music. They should make up an award for them even if there ain’t one.
I have a Tony Award now. It hasn’t changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and TV stuff, where people will see me more easily now because they know me.
When I got to New York, all I wanted to do – or so I thought – was win a Tony award or, at least, be nominated.
The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.
If one thing that bothers me about acting, it’s that there’s no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I’m going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I’m the best!
I find there’s almost no place to put an award that one’s quite comfortable with.
My dreams of taking the West End by storm as a dancer flickered but then faded; my father’s ambition to see me in a steady office job was tried and abandoned. But I had won a national speaking award, had stood for election to the local council, had begun to travel and took a job working for the Labour Party.
I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.
At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, you’re thinking, ‘How the hell am I here? All these people I’ve never met are here, and it’s so cool!’ And then, as time goes on, it’s a little bit like, ‘Ah… it’s more like work.’
You have to give the Ballon d’Or to the best player in the world at that time. Any differences between what the players are like as individuals should not affect who is chosen for a personal award.
Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.
The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.
I like to dress up and look nice. I’m not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it’s nice to push the boat out a little bit for award ceremonies and stuff.
It feels amazing to know that the whole country thought my role in ‘Newton’ was one of my best, and to win the Special Mention Award at the highest film award in India is just exhilarating.
Why do people need awards? Don’t you know your value and your worth? I don’t need anybody’s award or acceptance.
There are musicians who wait all their lives for this award while for me it came with my first album. People have started acknowledging my work because of the Grammy.
The best thing that winning those Academy Awards things are – the best thing of it is that when I say some of my ideas, somebody’s going to listen to it, and they’ll preface what I say, ‘Academy Award winner da-da-da-da-da.’
‘The Dance Scene’ is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The motivation I have to give each dancer on that set.
The American Music Awards mean more to us; that’s a people’s award, and we’re a people’s band. The Grammys are the critics.
When you win the Cy Young, it’s like, well, you’re a baseball player, that’s what you’re supposed to do. When you win the Clemente Award, you don’t do it to get recognized for your work, but it means so much more than baseball.
