Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Corigliano

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

Linda Fiorentino

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.

Lili Taylor

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

Luke Bryan

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

The difference between this award and any other is that it's a reader's choice. People holler about other awards because they are committee-selected. This is not committee-selected. There are purists in literary circles who have a different sense of what is going on here, but we think anything you can do to get people reading is a good thing.

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.

Shreya Ghoshal

Titles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana.

Neil Simon

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

Liam Neeson

The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and that focus translates into people buying tickets to see movies or download films, legitimately download them. And it keeps us all at work. So I'm a big fan of award shows.

Sharon Jones

The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.

Neil Patrick Harris

Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.

Tony Randall

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Tony Randall

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Patty Duke

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

John Lithgow

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

Queen Latifah

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 female or any of that. We had to earn them.

Queen Latifah

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

Kevin Hart

I only wanna go up the steps toward a different level of stardom. The BET Awards was one of those steps, the VMAs was another huge step. And the next step, eventually, hopefully, would be the Oscars.

Ralph Fiennes

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

Peter Frampton

I stopped singing and they gave me an award.

Penelope Cruz

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

Robert Henri

The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Stephen Dorff

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

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!