Quotes About Awards

As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it's nice to push the boat out a little bit for award ceremonies and stuff.

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

Donald Trump should be focused on how to fix the country, not an award show.

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

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

I'm rather fond of my awards.

We think accolades are nice, awards are great, but we make music for the people.

I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.

It's nice to have awards from time to time. There was a time when I had to make a living from my writing, and it wasn't always easy. I value awards a lot - and more so if there is a little cash with them!

You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't.

I'm someone who believes in having motivation at all times, win or lose, individual awards.

Now I can always be called 'Emmy winner Regina King.' I think that in this business, it must mean something. Every time someone has won an award, and they're announcing them or speaking about them, that prefaces their name.

The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.

Before I even agreed to work with Hennessy and the Privilege Awards, I wanted to do some research on it, look up past winners, and find out more about it.

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

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

'The Theory Of Everything' was a charming story, but I never dreamed it would turn out the way it did, winning all sorts of awards, and I don't think anybody working on it did.

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

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'm not the most in-tune guy with what is getting nominated and winning awards in general.

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.