Quotes About Awards

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Before leaving Austin I heard a radio report on an Englishman who's giving out awards for stupid security measures. First prize goes to an airport scanner who forced a female passenger to drink from three bottles of her own breast milk. She'd pumped it before boarding, and they wanted to make sure it wasn't poison. This explains why sperm donors are traveling Greyhound.

For all his ego and mendacity, Moore is immensely popular. He's got an Oscar, more film awards than we can easily count, and a following whose blindest followers resemble cult members. Like a cult, the Moore movement shares the drive to recruit converts....

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

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.

Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

Stop spending money to be nominated for worthless awards with no substance and no worth to your career. If you have to spend money to be nominated for an award and then spend the time to push all your friends and fans to vote for you to win that award, it is not worth it and it is not going to help you in anyway whatsoever in the long run.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

All the media have their own award presentations.

I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool.

Any award the NBA gives you, whether it's on the court or off the court, it's definitely an honor.

When you look at not just for Sixth Man but also for any award in the NBA even when it comes to the MVP, you should look at their impact to their team.

I am happy with the Padma Shri. What difference does it make to me if I am now given a higher Padma Award?

In 1975 I had the award for the top male artist, the award for top single, the award for top album.

Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

I think #OscarsSoWhite is about there not truly being enough people of color represented.

One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

Awards are very important for a show like 'Rectify.' We're a small show; we're on a more obscure, harder-to-find channel that is very supportive of creative and singular vision.