Awards Quotes
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Mark Twain
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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.
Ed Sheeran
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
Sacheen Littlefeather
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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.
R. Kelly
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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!
Tea Leoni
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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.
Wadada Leo Smith
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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.
Zinedine Zidane
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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.
Viggo Mortensen
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
Karl Pilkington
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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.
Aaron Tveit
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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.
Barbra Streisand
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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.
Adele
