Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Scorsese

I accept all awards. I like them.

Lauryn Hill

The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award.

Johnny Vegas

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

Nicolas Cage

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

The highlights from the past have been our always entertaining and educational keynote speakers which have included Scout Cloud Lee from (CBS') Survivor and the Office of Gay and Lesbian Programs Banquet and Awards ceremony. This year, in my opinion, will be our biggest and best Pride Week events thus far.

Marlee Matlin

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

Rafael Benitez

Any medals and awards our players might receive for last season are fully merited, because they all did a fantastic job.

Speaking on behalf of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., we are not as heavily invested in ratings as they are. We continue to have the second-highest ratings of any awards show on TV, and our concentration is on producing the best show possible.

Ron Gardenhire

No matter how good he did, he wasn't very happy at the end of last year. It wasn't about the awards or anything else. It was about us not winning - and not getting back to the playoffs. That tells you a little bit about his makeup.

As we hire rapidly to scale up the company, it is natural to issue a larger number of stock awards than we would otherwise. The cost to the company of these stock awards occurs only over the periods the awards vest, which is when the employees earn the related benefit.

Terry Labonte

All my friends have called and offered me their bowling trophies and things like that. So if we win, we are going to have quite a collection of awards around the house.

Accomplishments and awards are forgotten. People and relationships are something that I'll never forget.

Joe Jonas

A lot of people look back ten years ago and go, 'Why was I wearing that?' I look back a year ago and say the same thing. The craziest outfit I ever wore was this white suit that I wore to an awards show in L.A. that I teamed with yellow shoes. It was interesting. It popped.

Robert Thompson

This is one of Ellen DeGeneres' specialties. When you do an Emmy awards after a crisis like this, you need to fulfill the purpose of the awards show and yet not seem too self-important. She seems to be very good at it.

Pau Gasol

It's all very positive. If Mike would get that, and me making All-Star team, it says how well we're doing collectively. We wouldn't be getting any individual awards or respect if collectively we weren't doing a good job.

Luke Zeller

For me it has always been about playing and succeeding as a team. The individual awards are secondary.

You're kidding. I didn't even get a T-shirt. They won't even give me a ticket to the Video Music Awards in Miami in a couple of weeks.

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.

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.

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?

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?

Taylor Lautner

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards 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.

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!

Shahrukh Khan

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