Quotes About Awards

Unless the technology makes buyers' lives dramatically simpler, more convenient, more productive, less risky, or more fun and fashionable, it will not attract the masses no matter how many awards it wins.

American Literary Community at the 2015 National Book Awards. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers, and his books have sold more than 350 million

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.

The success of a film at the box office will ensure happiness to the entire unit, but individual awards are like vitamin shots that will help boost the morale of an actor.

Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.

I have been nominated five times for the Filmfare Award but for some unknown reasons I failed to win the award even once.

What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people.

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

Our statement's on the screen. Awards won't make it better, and a lack of awards won't make it worse.

The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.

To be awarded with an honour of the stature of a Padma Bhushan, which is deemed as one of the three highest civilian awards in our country, is just gratifying.

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

Shane wasn't far removed from the man he'd been when he passed out on Gayle King's shoulder as Jesse Williams announced that he'd won the 2009 NAACP Award for Outstanding Fiction.

I know a lot of procedurals have huge viewership, yet they're never nominated for awards.

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.

We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

Awards season is big for me - I love following all the films and who might be nominated.

There's been many highs throughout my international career which I'll always remember with fondness, including my debut against Northern Ireland, winning two international player of the year awards, and my hat-trick in Malta.

The Ballon d'Or is one of my objectives, but it will be complicated so long as Ronaldo and Messi are around.