Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Osborne

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

Stephen Dorff

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

Shirley Knight

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

Shirley Temple

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Shahrukh Khan

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

Shahrukh Khan

Awards that ignore me are losers.

Ralph Fiennes

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

James McAvoy

I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.

Taylor Lautner

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

Waylon Jennings

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

William Gilmore Simms

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Salman Khan

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

Rod Serling

I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.

Yoko Ono

Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.

Wynonna Judd

I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago.

Robert Hofstadter

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

Rebel Wilson

I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

Stephen Sondheim

That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.