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I am never disappointed in life in not getting any awards: it is the movies which keep me going, not the awards.
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.
The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
I've been doing stand-up for 15 years and I've never even been invited to the Comedy Awards! How mental is that?
I have done about 25 films in Malayalam and won awards for my performances in films like 'Nandanam' and 'Saira.'
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.
I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.
Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.
I've been a fan of BET since I was a kid, growing up watching the awards, thinking that one day I would be there.
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.
It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.
Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.
I wasn't thinking about awards or becoming rich. I just wanted to be able to make my living by working as an actor.
On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
For me, if awards are not increasing my remuneration or adding value to the offers that I get, they have no meaning.
I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I love new things.
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
Sometimes our awards process can be very political in terms of just driving personal agendas, and I think we forget.
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
I have a certain tradition here at the GQ awards. Every year I pick the best-looking man and bestow upon him my kiss.
The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.
I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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.
I agree to the fight. The award, which is getting for these hardships, it is exorbitantly large. It is the joy of life.
With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.
I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.
Defensive awards and accolades aside, to have your jersey retired puts you in a position where you'll be known forever.
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.
I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards.
It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.
I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.
I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.
I don't make records to win awards. I make records to make records and hopefully make the records as good as they can be.
New lyric writers have become an asset for me. I gave Naseer Faraz a break in 'Aetbaar' and he was up for several awards.
I don't need awards to show me how successful I am or to prove to me that I'm doing a good thing and that I'm succeeding.
The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.
I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.
This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers.
I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.