Quotes About Award

nobody in India will love me for the award about the Punjab and Bengal and there will be roughly 80 million people with a grievance who will begin looking for me. I do not want them to find me . . .

Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.

The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy.

Tommy Lee Jones

I was pleased Melissa Leo won Best Supporting Actress for 'The Fighter' at the Oscars. I hope that her outfits are maintained in some cinema museum.

I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.

If I was offered the choice of an award for best actor or best supporting actor, I would go for supporting actor.

My name had been sent for the award for Best Supporting Actor in 'Tere Naam,' but I missed it.

In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

It came as a great surprise to receive an MBE and it is a true honor for me and my family.

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

A medal is an inconvenient thing to give to a naked man, because he has got no place to fix it on to.

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.

I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead.

I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.