Awards Quotes · Page 23

The one place you don't want to wear shorts is any major awards show. You can wear them to the Teen Choice…

— Peter Som

This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.

— Ryan North

[I] go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a…

— Cassandra Peterson

You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and…

— Julia Phillips

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.

— Colin Firth

If I'm gonna invite you to walk a country music awards show carpet, you have to be really, really special to me…

— Lainey Wilson

"I feel so fortunate to be 22 right now and having three [grammy awards] under my belt, which is amazing.''

— Christina Aguilera

I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.

— James McAvoy

If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If…

— Steve Hayden

The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of…

— Hillary Scott

I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy…

— Michael Jackson

This is a tremendous honor (winning the 2002 Roberto Clemente Award), to be considered in the same class as Roberto Clemente. He…

— Jim Thome

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

My main goal is that I don't want to be bad. The accolades and awards are fun, but I'd rather not stink…

— Corey Seager

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James,…

— Ernest Hemingway

I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame…

— John Hurt

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

— Kevin Smith

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent…

— William Petersen

“Always look at all the award not so much as a symbol of your personal success, but as a reminder of the…

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

I've been involved in all the different awards shows. Apparently, what I wear becomes important.

— June Squibb

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I…

— Rita Dove

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's…

— Phylicia Rashad

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

— Noam Chomsky

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their…

— Bob Hope

If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that…

— Laura Schlessinger

Awards are an encouragement. An award is not something we aim at while making a film.

— Vetrimaaran

I am a person who dresses to be comfortable; I did not allow the Grammy Awards name and won't allow the title…

— Koffee

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

— Paul Mooney

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

— Alan Alda

I was never focused on winning individual awards. I just tried to help the team out and do all that I could…

— Julius Peppers

It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants…

— Leslie Mann

Play the black card expertly, and you can win awards, make millions - all the while claiming that the people who got…

— Candace Owens

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

— Tony Randall

Everybody knows Milkha deserves more than a Padma Shri, but it is for others, including the federation, to nominate me to the…

— Milkha Singh

One of the first country artists I got to work with was Carrie Underwood at the Grammy Awards.

— Orianthi

You can receive the individual awards, but ultimately, you want to win the big game.

— Khalil Mack

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

— Junot Diaz

I don't care about awards and all the attention being a 'celebrity' gets you. It's just part of the job.

— James Corden

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

— Alan Bennett

I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago.

— Wynonna Judd