Awards Quotes

1. "My husband, Andrew Shue, is the co-founder of Do Something, and we both speak and present at awards ceremonies. It's absolutely amazing and humbling to see all the work so many young people are contributing to better their communities on both a local and global front."
Author: Amy Robach

2. "I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now."
Author: Anthony Hamilton

3. "Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he was one of the worst flyhalves he can remember. This did not prevent him from having opinions on most things in sport.His moment of glory came in 1970 when he predicted—correctly as it turned out—that Griquas would beat the Blue Bulls (then still the meekly named Noord-Transvaal) in the Currie Cup final. It is something for which he has never been forgiven by the powers-that-be at Loftus. Archie has played cricket in South Africa and India and gave the bowling term military medium a new and more pacifist interpretation. His greatest ambition was to score a century on Llandudno beach before the tide came in."
Author: Archie Henderson

4. "Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone."
Author: August Wilson

5. "I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it."
Author: Bob Balaban

6. "Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It's better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?"
Author: Carrie Fisher

7. "I don't define success by how much money someone makes. I don't define success by how many trophies or plaques or awards someone has.I don't define it by membership in exclusive clubs or the ability to name-drop about someone's famous friends.I don't define it by how many luxury cars or opulent homes someone might own or how many sumptuous vacations they might taken in exotic locales all over the globe.I don't define success...oh, hell, I'm just kidding. Actually, all that stuff is fantastic!"
Author: Celia Rivenbark

8. "Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it everlasting. They focus on awards, achievements, and whatc an be done in their own strength while the Almighty desires to work trough their weakness."
Author: Chris Fabry

9. "I peeked at him out of the corner of my eye. He had a slight smirk on his face. I imagined he was mentally checking off a task in his planner.Seduce date by talking about other girlsImpress date with number of awards you have receivedDo not spend money on dateMake date watch corny movie in media centerSneak in comments about your frugalityPut arm around date at exactly the halfway mark of the movie"
Author: Colleen Houck

10. "I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all."
Author: Craig Venter

11. "I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't."
Author: Cristiano Ronaldo

12. "When my mother was alive, I was the daughter first and everything else second.... That's what made her death so painful. My mother was a big part of my life and a big reason why I did what I did. I've always derived a lot of energy from being a good daughter.... When she was gone, I suddenly thought, Why am I doing this? For whom? Losing my mom was really hard on me. I remember going to the Academy Awards shortly after she died and thinking, Well I'm all dressed up, and my mother won't see me."
Author: Goldie Hawn

13. "I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl."
Author: Harvey Weinstein

14. "To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit."
Author: Irving Langmuir

15. "I was honored at the awards ceremony. I didn't get any recognition, but I was honored to be there. (Tickets were cheaper than I imagined!)"
Author: Jarod Kintz

16. "Chicks dig winners. That's why I create my own awards for me to win."
Author: Jarod Kintz

17. "Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me."
Author: Jasper Fforde

18. "It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth form and we used to have an end of year celebration and give out different awards. I even got a little trophy!"
Author: Jessica Ennis

19. "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."
Author: Jhonen Vasquez

20. "Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums."
Author: Jimmy Carr

21. "There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success."
Author: Jodi Picoult

22. "Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah."
Author: John Lahr

23. "I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm."
Author: Jon Stewart

24. "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."
Author: Julianna Margulies

25. "Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards."
Author: Junot Diaz

26. "I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get."
Author: Kenny Rogers

27. "Awards do not pay the mortgage."
Author: Kevin Chamberlin

28. "I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show."
Author: Lauryn Hill

29. "I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays."
Author: Leigh Allyn Baker

30. "I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy."
Author: Lionel Messi

31. "She will not believe me if I tell her love is all anyone ever needs. Everything else – the fast cars, the private aeroplanes, the mansions, the diamonds, the watches, the fancy clothes, the perfect bodies, the publicity, the awards, the applause – all are ways of filling the emptiness created by the lack of love."
Author: Manjul Bajaj

32. "A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them."
Author: Martin Compston

33. "At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did."
Author: Mercedes McCambridge

34. "No person writes to win awards."
Author: Mo Yan

35. "The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequently it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity."
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

36. "Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
Author: Neil Gaiman

37. "I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy."
Author: Nicki Minaj

38. "You don't really work for awards, but when they come it's... nice."
Author: Pierfrancesco Favino

39. "My kids can't eat awards."
Author: Pitbull

40. "It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards."
Author: Robert Plant

41. "I'm sorry, but I have this fear that someday you're goingtowake up a dried-out, bitter old hag with plenty of science awardsbut no personal life whatsoever. And you'll sit there at night andsob abouthow you've wasted your life."
Author: Robin Brande

42. "And these women were not concerned in the least that Kellan had roommates. In fact, I don't think they were even concerned that he had neighbors. Maybe they were operating under the false assumption that Kellan gave out awards for who could be the loudest... who was the more enthusiastic... who could say "Oh, God !" the most. Then again, maybe the jerk actually did give out prizes."
Author: S.C. Stephens

43. "Awards are good but rewards are better."
Author: Santosh Kalwar

44. "My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Lucy Fisher were honored with the annual award."
Author: Sharon Lawrence

45. "Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get."
Author: Stephen Chow

46. "I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows."
Author: Stephen Daldry

47. "They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity."
Author: Stephen Daldry

48. "Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for."
Author: Tom Spanbauer

49. "True, [Gary Nolan] might not strike fear into the hearts of all you free-swinging power hitters out there—at least not in the same way as, say, Tom Seaver … but without question he was one of the most talented pitchers in baseball during the Big Red Machine era, and except for countless injuries that plagued him year after year he'd have the numbers and awards to back up that claim."
Author: Tucker Elliot

50. "In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note; But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who in despite of view is pleased to dote; Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited To any sensual feast* with thee alone*: But my five wits* nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee, Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man*, Thy proud hearts slave and vassal wretch to be: Only my plague thus far I count my gain, That she that makes me sin awards me pain."
Author: William Shakespeare

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