Contests Quote by William Devane Download Open image “Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.” — William Devane ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contests Emmys Popularity Popularity contest
I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing. — Michael C. Hall Copy Share Image
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award. — Tony Randall Copy Share Image
Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough… — Christopher Judge Copy Share Image
I think it might be interesting to give an Emmy to an outstanding background performance in either a comedy or drama series. — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
The Emmys seem like an entity unto themselves that have an agenda that sometimes corresponds to quality, sometimes doesn't. — Chris Bauer Copy Share Image
The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place. — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
I had been watching the Emmys since I was probably 5 years old. Those shows, when you're a kid, it all seems like such… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
Emmys are gorgeous and fun, but with or without them, there is beautiful work out there. — Peter Scolari Copy Share Image
Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing… — Dinah Shore Copy Share Image
You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles. — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
You can look at the Emmys two ways in you're nominated. It's either win-win or lose-lose. If things go very well and I win,… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan. — William Devane Copy Share Image
I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough… — William Devane Copy Share Image
I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from… — William Devane Copy Share Image
Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential. — William Devane Copy Share Image
I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring. — William Devane Copy Share Image
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer… — William Devane Copy Share Image
It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then… — William Devane Copy Share Image
The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process. — William Devane Copy Share Image
When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about… — William Devane Copy Share Image
And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff,… — William Devane Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
I won contest after contest until finally I realized, "Ok, I am the best in the world, but now what?" So I opened my… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest. — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a… — Don Murray Copy Share Image
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image