Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Ayre

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Individual awards do not mean anything. We won as a team. It's all about what it says on our T-shirts (pointing to the Big Ten Championship T-shirt he was wearing), team champions.

I'm looking forward to the event-it's a great venue, tickets are selling fast and we'll have a lot of fun. I think it will be a welcome departure from the usual awards format, especially for those who don't really like chicken.

Rick Moody

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

It will be something nice to look back on later, but I don't really think about awards too much right now.

The top two awards don't even go to the robots.

The top 20 earn awards so it was cool to have two swimmers in that.

This is the second year of the ICC Awards after a very successful introduction in London last year,

This is the most-watched awards show on television. Anything can happen on live TV and we're betting on it!

Donald O'Connor

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

Finn Taylor

I hope people are buying into the unique script and characters. We realized as the process unfolded that the studios would make a watered-down version of what we wanted to do. A watered-down version of The Darwin Awards wouldn't be funny.

Jessica Biel

In the car on my way to premieres and awards shows, I'll sit with tissue paper under my armpits so I don't soil the delicate dress fabric. The whole time, I'm telling myself, 'Please don't sweat, please don't sweat.' I throw the tissues out right before I step out of the car, and nobody ever knows! I just put on a smile and fake it.

LeBron James

I never worry about individual accolades. Never have and never will. I feel like the individual awards will come with the team's success.

I didn't do the first triathlon but I used pinking shears on muslin to make numbers for the contestants, and I took care of the scoring and the awards ceremony. I have competed in the triathlon as a team member for many years; this year I was the swimmer.

Imelda Staunton

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

I had no idea. It was so hard waiting (before the awards ceremony). It was really suspenseful this year. I had the flu or something today. Still, I knew I had to try my best today no matter how I felt.

Steve Irwin

I had to jump off and jump on a plane at the ranger's station airfield, flew straight down and walked off the plane into the awards ceremony,

Shaun Alexander

I never really thought about whether it could be done or not, because awards are exciting but they're not the end-all, be-all. Being 13-3 was a goal for us ... Those all come with setting the first goal, which is being good.

I'm happy for Jeremiah for all the awards he's getting. He was so important to our team - he was the kind of kid where, if Jeremiah was playing well, the rest of the kids on the team picked up their intensity as well. He's a great athlete.

Brian Jones

I just tried to keep from not turning the ball over and in getting the ball to our playmakers. I don't care about all of the other accolades. Not winning any awards took the pressure off of me. I just wanted to do my part to win this for the guys.

His experiences in having led other organizations toward national awards proved to be invaluable in our own march toward the Baldrige.

Pamela Anderson

Canadian music rocks. No matter where I am in the world I can listen to Canadian music and feel like I'm at home. This is going to be one kick-ass awards show.

Mark Richt

I am very excited about what's going to happen with D.J. Shockley, ... He is a great football player. I'm just happy for him. You know, guys can mope about the situation, or guys can decide, 'I just don't want to be here,' and take off. He didn't do that. Not only did he stay, but he thrived at Georgia. He is in great shape academically, and he has won community service awards for us. He's just a fantastic guy, a great man. He's probably the most respected player we have on the team.

But we would have traded all the awards for a chance to still be playing.

Neil Gaiman

Also, I've already won all the awards.

Nick Cannon

It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues It's just fake gold and plastic We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board Better yet, when's the last time you showed up and supported the NAACP Awards?

Seth Rogen

All my friends are talented enough to get nominated for awards. I just am always surprised when things and people I like are also liked by things like the Oscars.

Seth Rogen

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

Mercedes Ruehl

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Mercedes McCambridge

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.

Jake Bugg

I dont need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

Patricia Clarkson

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

Paula Cole

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.