Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Kushner

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Tom Waits

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Steven Spielberg

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Shirley Knight

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

Shirley Temple

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Shahrukh Khan

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

Shahrukh Khan

Awards that ignore me are losers.

Reese Witherspoon

Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.

Rick Baker

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

Tim Roth

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

Tika Sumpter

[Director Richard Tanne] was inspired by their [Barack and Michelle Obama] flirtation, and their connection. That's not normal with politicians who are married - they usually look forced or awkward.

Viggo Mortensen

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

Victor Borge

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

Tom Felton

In England we are sort of very awkward.

Steve Lacy

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Stephen Dorff

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

Suzanne Collins

It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.

Steven Cojocaru

I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus.

Richard Stallman

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

Troy Garity

I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.

Vince Gill

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

Robert Graves

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Stephen Sondheim

That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.

Sri Aurobindo

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.

Ruta Sepetys

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward.

Waylon Jennings

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

Yoko Ono

Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.

Wynonna Judd

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

Willow Smith

Famous-ness is awesomeness but some parts of famous-ness can be hard.