Awards Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.
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Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.
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There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.
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Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
