Quotes About Awards

Daniel Boulud told me at a young age, 'Whatever happens to you in your career, you're going to be great - be humble. Just be humble.' And I think about that daily. Like, whatever happens to me, whatever awards we win as a team or whatever else, just be humble.

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.

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.

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.

They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for women filmmakers because I felt it should be about your talent, and I made a film that won awards, and people wanted me.

My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes,' was nominated for a number of book awards, one of which was The Quill Award, and they had it in New York at the Natural History Museum.

On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.

My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.

It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent.

Are you kidding? This is crazy, man. I thought I was Mr. Pre-Televised awards.

I have a certain tradition here at the GQ awards. Every year I pick the best-looking man and bestow upon him my kiss.

A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would be more elegant.

Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

THE AWARD CEREMONY is held at a high school in Hyannis. Though it's just a gymnasium (the scent of balls of both varieties is still palpable) and the ceremony hasn't started yet, everyone speaks in hushed tones, like it's church. Something important and literary is about to happen here.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.