Award Quotes

326 Award quotes by 296 unique authors

This is a tremendous honor (winning the 2002 Roberto Clemente Award), to be considered in the same class as Roberto Clemente. He is a hero… — Jim Thome
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of… — Ernest Hemingway
A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should… — Morgan Freeman
I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested… — Morgan Freeman
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards. — John Cusack
I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it. — Doug Davidson
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… — Rita Dove
I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat. — Kirsten Dunst
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best… — Clint Eastwood
Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's… — Dave Eggers
I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've… — Jesse Eisenberg
Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen… — Paul Feig
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. — Alfred Hitchcock
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. — Helen Hunt
That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play. — Janet Jackson
How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest… — Naveen Jain
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… — Elfriede Jelinek
I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one. — Nicole Kidman
Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the… — Jeffrey Kluger
I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot.… — Beyonce Knowles
Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or… — Queen Latifah
When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show. — Marlee Matlin
I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world… — Marlee Matlin
I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas. — James McAvoy

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296 authors contributed a total of 326 Award Quotes, led by these top contributors: