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 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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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've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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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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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
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Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards.
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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.
