Quotes About Award

I read the cheery caption, about how award-recipient Harris Blanchard "took a gap year, but is certainly making up for it!" So that's what they are calling it now—the time before and after he stood trial for the rape of my daughter. A gap year.

And it isn't doing a thing to them. You get that, don't you? They're going on with their night, drinking champagne, toasting their award-winner. They don't think they've done anything wrong, and they never will. They see themselves as the victims. They see him as the victim.

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

I plan with the BBC African Player of the Year award to become an agent of hope and positive change in the lives of the millions of African youths who have lost hope and are deprived.

I love MTV, and I love the VMAs. There's no award show like it. It really is the coolest award show, hands down.

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

The Heisman is often a career award. Chris Weinke, Michael Vick, Eric Crouch and Drew Brees have all had a more than one great year.

Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award.

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'

An award or an honour from the government is always welcomed any time.

I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn't the best kiss as far as kisses go, but I hold the fact that I kissed John Updike, that he kissed me, very close to my heart.

President Bush bestowed the Congressional Medal on myself.

I got the Margaret Sanger award. I was kissed by President Obama.

But I don't pretend I earned a Lifetime Achievement Award.

After winning so many debut awards, I never thought I would win for 'Ishaqzaade.'

Defensive player of the year is MVP in my book.

I deserved to win the Ballon d'Or.

You have to give the Ballon d'Or to the best player in the world at that time. Any differences between what the players are like as individuals should not affect who is chosen for a personal award.