Quotes About Awards

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.

We have a lot to be thankful for in 2019; we're so appreciative to have received the awards we have this year, and of course we are very thankful to everyone who loves K-pop and supports our music.

I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.

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.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

About the Author Winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize, a Peabody Award, an Emmy, and two Polk awards, ROGER ROSENBLATT is University Professor of Writing at Long Island University Southampton College. He writes essays for Time magazine and for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. He lives in Manhattan and Quogue, Long Island.

I think life awards you if have your priorities in the right place.

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.

Awards are the only currency Amercian writing has to describe a writer's work.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

People are so quick to say someone is a fantastic player and deserves to win the Ballon d'Or after just one good year. I disagree with that.

At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I'm amazed at myself because there have been new generations since I've been born and new music that they create, so it's amazing to still be on the radar.

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

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

I got a break in 1999 in Ram Gopal Varma's 'Jungle.' I won awards for 'Jungle.'

If I ran the Grammys, it would probably go bankrupt.

Trevor and I had been going to awards ceremonies for years. People knew. Look, if you don't get married by age 65, people know something's up.

If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.

Whoever wins MVP, whoever wins whatever those awards are, that's not my decision.

Don't get me wrong: I've worked, over the course of 14 years, with certain actors that are really just not nice as people, so you don't really care what happens to their show. But someone like Rachael Harris, you hope that woman wins an Emmy.

I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for '3rd Rock on the Sun,' I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well.

On the personal level, it's hard for a goalie. You don't get awards for save percentage or anything like that. Your work is really put into how many wins you can get, how many times you can get your team in the playoffs and all that. So I took a lot of pride in winning.

The record company felt wisely that we should get something out before I left 'Hamilton' or around awards time, and that deadline was not easy.