Awards Quotes

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Mark Twain

Another, Normal, Accepting

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
George W. Bush

Done, President, United

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

Real, Friends, Become

No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.
Ellen DeGeneres

Funny, Time, Respect

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.
Jon Stewart

Time, Second, Asked

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

Keep, Land, Lifetime

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov

Another, Normal, Accepting

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts

Strong, Football, Done

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
Alanis Morissette

Success, Music, Reason

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
Bill Murray

Nothing, Anyone, Disdain

My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.
Chris Rock

Life, Goal, Show

Also, I've already won all the awards.
Neil Gaiman

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.
Lauryn Hill

Sometimes, Kids, Show

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.
Brad Pitt

Friend, Said, Talk

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
Neil Gaiman

Funny, Great, Battle

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.
Natalie Portman

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
Barbra Streisand

Give, Unless, Terribly

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
Junot Diaz

Live, Die, Books

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

Won, Call, Hungry

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

Become, Getting, Flattered

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.
Nicole Kidman

Show, Read, Head

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
Loretta Lynn

Music, Country, Partner

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
Loretta Lynn

Winning, Her, Nashville

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.
Danny Boyle

Great, Ego, Problem

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
Barbra Streisand

Friend, Mean, Together

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.
Harvey Weinstein

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.
Alicia Keys

Long, After, Last

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.
Reese Witherspoon

Blessed, Children, Real

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
Reba McEntire

Life, Family, Time

I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.
Nicki Minaj

Time, Gotten, Grammy

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