Dwayne Betts is the kind of man who should be receiving awards from the Connecticut bar. Instead, he hasn't been admitted.

In the 80s, parallel cinema gained momentum. So, I got back to films and won National awards for Maqbool' and other films.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

I never did music for awards. I did music because I love it and I do music because I love singing and I love entertaining.

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

When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor.

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

It's nice to win an award, I would assume. I've never won one, but I would imagine it's great. I have no idea what I'll do.

That whole concept of 'I want to really go after people' - I don't understand that. Is it a roast, or is it an awards show?

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

When it comes to awards and things like that - I don't know why - I just always sit in amazement and never really expect it.

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.

We have seen many instances where Malayali actors missed out on the awards when some of the jury members were from the state.

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

I don't know how many more of these awards I can come up for because I think a little bit is coming out of my pants right now.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

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.

I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.

I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that.

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'

BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

I know the Academy Awards are all about the art, and love, of movie making. But I have to say, my favorite part is the dresses!

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture.

I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.

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.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's all music is.

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.

I was living in the U.K. I was back in New Zealand for the New Zealand Music Awards, which is like our annual New Zealand GRAMMYs.

I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.

Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

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.

Honestly, I started playing the pause game right after the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. That's around when pauses really started.

Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

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