Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Hall

The fact that "Léon: The Professional" doesn't have every award in the world is a sign that it is underrated. I'm not even ashamed to say that I cried during every scene.

Patty Duke

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

Martin Amis

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

Questlove

I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

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!

Robert Hofstadter

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

Rod Serling

I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.

Rebel Wilson

I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

Robert Graves

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

Robert Osborne

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

Salman Khan

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

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.

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.

Jerry Seinfeld

I do not know why anyone would host an awards show. No matter how unbelievably well you do at it, the only thing that can happen is you get asked again to host an awards show.

Jeffrey Tambor

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

Jeff Bridges

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

Javier Bardem

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

Jason Statham

You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing 'Crank,' and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done.

Halle Berry

I've always thought that when anyone receives an award for acting they should always thank their fellow actors, because the only way you're going to deliver your best performance is when you have other good actors on the set supporting you and being very present for you even when the camera is not on them.

Iain Banks

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

Gena Showalter

Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.

Christopher Bailey

It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

Francis Ford Coppola

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

I've essentially doubled the business since I've been here in two years. And we're going to do more. Our corporate award line is really expanding and I've got enough room here to expand operations when it's necessary.

Vince Young

I'm just enjoying the moment right now. All of these awards mean a great deal to me, because of all of the hard work that me and my teammates have put in this year. I guess we've got another one to go (the Heisman) on Saturday.

The big issue is award availability. Whenever you have a capacity reduction, that inevitably translates directly into fewer award seats, and I have no doubt that will happen in this case.

The best memory is probably the bronze medal game and winning the bronze medal. Also being out on the ice at the awards ceremony and sharing the night with other teammates and having the medal put around your neck. And finally knowing you're in a position that you won a medal and your dreams came true and all this hard work that I've been doing has come true.

The awards provide an opportunity for all players, umpires and teams to be recognized and one of the key strengths of the system we have in place is that this recognition comes from respected voices within the game.

The awards are a way to honor our talented technology leaders who lead the path to technological growth in Southeast Michigan. Their accomplishments are significant, and they are moving us forward as a region.

The award is somewhat problematic for us because we are not greedy for money. For us, this has been a matter of following the contract.

The award is for the unsung hero -- someone who is always willing to lend a hand when the chamber needs some help.

The award goes to a business that has been a landmark to the community, and the Dairy Queen definitely qualifies as a landmark in Hilliard.