Top 444 Awards Quotes

Most of an award-show host’s job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it’s the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel’s ‘Hero Dog Awards.’

When you’re the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it’s your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.

Over the years, people have asked me, ‘Do you think there should be a separate category for acting in the digital realm? Or hybrid sort of awards for digital characters?’ and so on. And I’ve always really maintained that I don’t believe so.

You don’t want a movie to have a lot of awards and no audience.

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.

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

I don’t know how many bestsellers I’ve got, or half the awards I’ve won, and I don’t really care. I’m just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

I met Heinlein after ‘The Forever War’ had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he’d read it three times.

I don’t like to look back. I love the next challenge and don’t keep awards. There are a few that are really important, but my parents have most of them.

I’ve trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

For all of the achievements and awards, to be able to retire as a Raider ranks highest among all of those.

I don’t look at things goin’, ‘Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?’ If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.

Awards shows are being pushed to shed their genteel limousine liberalism and embrace the race-gender-sexual identity agenda in full.

When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for women filmmakers because I felt it should be about your talent, and I made a film that won awards, and people wanted me.

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren’t traditional comics buyers I don’t think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I’m very used to it. I’m not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

I always had a larger view. I’m interested in real life – my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for ‘Beardance’ and the other for ‘Far North.’ The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn’t do this out of compassion or guilt. It’s done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

I’ve been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I’ve won some awards and I’m very proud of those accomplishments. But I don’t think there’s anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

Awards sell tickets, and they’re a clever publicity stunt.

Since becoming a BBC breakfast presenter I have been paid four-figure sums for doing hour-long speeches for associations and at awards dinners. That has been an eye-opener. I am surprised by how much people are willing to pay TV celebrities to do that kind of stuff.

Yeah, I think that’s the best part of being nominated and receiving awards is whatever you care about that you have given time to, have served different people, you get to spotlight and highlight that.

I haven’t watched MTV’s annual Video Music Awards since Bill Clinton was president. I was wearing a plastic choker, and Alanis Morissette won for ‘Ironic.’

Many people don’t know that all Grammy awards are not created equal. An unspoken hierarchy exists in many circles, and some categories are more respected than others.

I don’t need any more awards.

When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him… But I can’t go up and speak to him, because I don’t want to seem like a goob.

The room is full of such talent. It’s a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It’s the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

All my earlier awards were for a particular film or a song. Even the Oscar or the Grammy was for a particular song, but Dadasaheb Phalke is for my entire work so it is the biggest honor for me.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies – liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I’ve always claimed that things like that don’t get you work. Work gets you work. That’s my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

I’ve always found it embarrassing to receive awards.

My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it’s the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.

If in my twenties I’d gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you’re still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It’s the life achievement period of your career.

Academy Awards don’t really solve anything.

The flattery is nice, but awards don’t add up to writing quality songs.

I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don’t.

Speaking from personal experience, I watch zero shows when they air. The only shows I watch live are awards shows or sports. Shows like ‘True Detective’ and ‘Game Of Thrones,’ I watch every episode, but I don’t watch them as they air, and I think that’s becoming the case for people more.

Comedy is very tough to do, it never gets the awards but it’s the toughest task.

The Spirit Awards are great too, they’ll say anything because they’re not televised. Another great drinking night.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

I’ve never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is like having sports day everyday: competing with each other, doing your best. It’s like that except we don’t get awards every day in our sports day.

Awards are very important for a show like ‘Rectify.’ We’re a small show; we’re on a more obscure, harder-to-find channel that is very supportive of creative and singular vision.

I go to the British Comedy Awards and, you know, quite a few people were making jokes at my expense. It just made me feel awful, because I am there with my wife and she has gone out and bought a dress. And it is my big night and I won, and yet the overriding experience was that of nastiness.

I know a lot of procedurals have huge viewership, yet they’re never nominated for awards.

I’ve received many awards, but I’m most proud of the ones for my country’s music.

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

In the future, you’ll see many more nominations for big awards going to goalkeepers.

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 have done about 25 films in Malayalam and won awards for my performances in films like ‘Nandanam’ and ‘Saira.’

‘Lost Vikings’ and ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing’ were pretty critical games to us. We got some acclaim as a result, some video gaming awards. Those are the games that impressed Davidson and Associates and led to the merger talks.

It’s always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something.

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