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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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'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
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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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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've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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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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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 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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I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.
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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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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
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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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Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards.
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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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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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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
