Awards Quotes

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.
Jhonen Vasquez

Fact, Used, Guy

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
Pedro Almodovar

Success, Mother, Everything

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.
Tony Randall

Publicity, Gimmick

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.
William Petersen

Work, Good, Business

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
Chantal Kreviazuk

Nice, Writing, Quality

Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.
Chantal Kreviazuk

Actually, Spark, Sales

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.
Gloria Stuart

Great, Films, Receive

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
Patricia Clarkson

Surprise, Caught, Totally

But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.
Dennis Eckersley

Alone, Important, Winning

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.
Dean Norris

The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I exposed myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Once, Year, Felt

Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.
Steven Van Zandt

Good, Best, Art

Awards don't really mean much.
Uta Hagen

I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it.
Bob Balaban

Time, Good, Last

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.
Luke Bryan

Kid, Shows, Watching

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!
Joseph Jarman

Thought, Energy, Here

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
Amy Adams

Life, Success, Happiness

Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.
Andrea Martin

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.
Lili Taylor

Positive, Death, Negative

The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Amazing, Mind, Lost

What happens on 'Mad Men' in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it's superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it's become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it's a beautiful show to look at.
Kurt Sutter

Men, Beautiful, Writing

I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.
Dierks Bentley

Great, Best, Nice

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
Annette Bening

Art, Husband, Feet

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
Patrick Marber

Nice, Yes, Golden

No person writes to win awards.
Mo Yan

Person, Win, Writes

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.
Jordan Knight

Wife, Everything, Give

I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.
Micky Dolenz

My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.
Doris Roberts

Love, Lovely, Show

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.
John Singleton

Academy, Nominated

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.
Stephen Chow

Good, Win, Sometimes

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