Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

Also, I've already won all the awards.

Mercedes Ruehl

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Mercedes McCambridge

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

Jodi Picoult

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

Jodi Picoult

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Calvin Ayre

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Individual awards do not mean anything. We won as a team. It's all about what it says on our T-shirts (pointing to the Big Ten Championship T-shirt he was wearing), team champions.

I'm looking forward to the event-it's a great venue, tickets are selling fast and we'll have a lot of fun. I think it will be a welcome departure from the usual awards format, especially for those who don't really like chicken.

Vince Young

I'm just enjoying the moment right now. All of these awards mean a great deal to me, because of all of the hard work that me and my teammates have put in this year. I guess we've got another one to go (the Heisman) on Saturday.

I had no idea. It was so hard waiting (before the awards ceremony). It was really suspenseful this year. I had the flu or something today. Still, I knew I had to try my best today no matter how I felt.

Steve Irwin

I had to jump off and jump on a plane at the ranger's station airfield, flew straight down and walked off the plane into the awards ceremony,

Shaun Alexander

I never really thought about whether it could be done or not, because awards are exciting but they're not the end-all, be-all. Being 13-3 was a goal for us ... Those all come with setting the first goal, which is being good.

Dan Wheldon

It's a challenge. Everybody believes that. Physically and mentally, it's tough. It awards you, though.

It's a very effective and cost-efficient way to bring Crash to the people who need to see it. The most important part of the awards process is the movie itself.

It's the most suspenseful Oscars I ever recall. There are more cliffhangers at the year's awards than I think we've seen in modern history.

It's the most suspenseful Oscars I ever recall, ... There are more cliffhangers at the year's awards than I think we've seen in modern history.

Leslie Mann

It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something.

Brian Jones

I just tried to keep from not turning the ball over and in getting the ball to our playmakers. I don't care about all of the other accolades. Not winning any awards took the pressure off of me. I just wanted to do my part to win this for the guys.

Danny Boyle

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

Colin Firth

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.

I'm happy for Jeremiah for all the awards he's getting. He was so important to our team - he was the kind of kid where, if Jeremiah was playing well, the rest of the kids on the team picked up their intensity as well. He's a great athlete.

Jessica Biel

In the car on my way to premieres and awards shows, I'll sit with tissue paper under my armpits so I don't soil the delicate dress fabric. The whole time, I'm telling myself, 'Please don't sweat, please don't sweat.' I throw the tissues out right before I step out of the car, and nobody ever knows! I just put on a smile and fake it.

LeBron James

I never worry about individual accolades. Never have and never will. I feel like the individual awards will come with the team's success.

His experiences in having led other organizations toward national awards proved to be invaluable in our own march toward the Baldrige.

Pamela Anderson

Canadian music rocks. No matter where I am in the world I can listen to Canadian music and feel like I'm at home. This is going to be one kick-ass awards show.

Because of cable, all the awards shows have dropped in the ratings, but the popularly chosen ones have dropped even further,

Gena Showalter

Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.

Finn Taylor

I hope people are buying into the unique script and characters. We realized as the process unfolded that the studios would make a watered-down version of what we wanted to do. A watered-down version of The Darwin Awards wouldn't be funny.

I didn't do the first triathlon but I used pinking shears on muslin to make numbers for the contestants, and I took care of the scoring and the awards ceremony. I have competed in the triathlon as a team member for many years; this year I was the swimmer.

Imelda Staunton

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

David Fincher

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

Speaking on behalf of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., we are not as heavily invested in ratings as they are. We continue to have the second-highest ratings of any awards show on TV, and our concentration is on producing the best show possible.

Blythe Danner

Bruce had been so ill, his father was very ill. And she had been, you know, she felt all of those awards being presented at that tremendous, tremendous acclaim, I think, was difficult for her to even digest. And so every time that she'd won an award she, she would fall to pieces.