Famous Quotes & Sayings

Queen Latifah

Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

Queen Latifah

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

Kevin Hart

I only wanna go up the steps toward a different level of stardom. The BET Awards was one of those steps, the VMAs was another huge step. And the next step, eventually, hopefully, would be the Oscars.

Jake Bugg

I dont need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

Micky Dolenz

I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

Luther Campbell

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

Luise Rainer

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me,

Martin Scorsese

I accept all awards. I like them.

Lauryn Hill

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.

Sharon Jones

The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.

Neil Patrick Harris

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.

Tony Randall

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Tony Randall

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Marlee Matlin

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

Jon Stewart

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

Joyce Carol Oates

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

Justin Timberlake

Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I’d probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

Questlove

I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

Patty Duke

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

Martin Amis

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

Emma Thompson

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

Linda Fiorentino

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.

Lili Taylor

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

Luke Bryan

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

John Lithgow

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

John Bardeen

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

John Bardeen

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

John Corigliano

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

Robert Henri

The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.

Ryan Hall

The fact that "Léon: The Professional" doesn't have every award in the world is a sign that it is underrated. I'm not even ashamed to say that I cried during every scene.

Viggo Mortensen

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

Victor Borge

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

Robert Graves

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