Awards Quotes

• The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • People
  • Song
  • Reason

• I aint gotta get a plaque, I aint gotta get awards I just walk up out the door, all the girls will applaud

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Door

• I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Hold

• Being the only girl, I feel a lot of pressure. I try not to think about it, but I definitely get in the gym a lot more frequently towards awards season. The guys always look great. They're both great looking and wear a good suit and a great tie and some awesome shoes and they're good to go. I'm like, 'I don't know what to do!'

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • Gym
  • Season
  • Awards

• Katy Perry still gets me every time. She's very funny in person! We met at the Teen Choice Awards and she pulled my cheeks apart and told me how cute I was. My life was literally flashing before my eyes!

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Bad
  • President
  • Greed

• Honestly I can truly say, it would be, nice, but I don't feel like I got to get a Grammy or something to feel official. I'm cool but it would be nice Grammy Awards!

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Feels
  • Honestly
  • Grammy

• Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Winning
  • Successful
  • Talent

• When we come together and appreciate each other, that's always a positive thing; a step in the right direction. That is what the NAACP Image Awards do. If we can just come together and love each other, that's important. I do feel like there's a lack of love but oddly enough, we blame the lack of love on other people not loving and appreciating our accomplishments. But the real reality is we haven't loved and appreciated our own accomplishments.

  

  Ernie Hudson
  • Love
  • Step
  • Accomplishments

• The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending ruffle of pop's hair while handing it a lollipop. An act of beaming condescension whose transparent message is: "This one guy, and just this one guy, he's so good, he transcends his trivial idiom and elevates himself into our significant one."

  

  David Bennun
  • Literature
  • Significant
  • Condescending

• There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Hollywood
  • Idiot
  • Awards

• I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award for supporting actor. Then we got to throw away a lot of the script because we just did Jack Palance jokes, because it was just too delicious, watching this old man carry on like that.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Actors

• I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Done
  • She
  • Mother

• What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.

  

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
  • Order
  • Merit
  • Garters

• Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • People
  • Winning
  • Heroic

• This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Book
  • American
  • Together

• On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

  

  George Clooney
  • Play
  • Basketball
  • Doors

• I am happy. I have won many awards, but it is the national award that I was waiting for. This means everything to me.

  

  Remo D'Souza
  • Happy
  • Waiting
  • Means

• If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Forever
  • Body
  • Creating

• [I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is a category error, but that's not why. Not in itself. What bothers me is the perceived status of the categories. If pop lyricists were routinely considered for the prize as are authors and poets, I'd still think it mistaken, but I wouldn't much care. But I am quite certain that Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, for example, both at the very least Dylan's equals as writers, have never been in the running and never will be.

  

  David Bennun
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Care

• Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Baseball
  • Awards
  • Statistics

• My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!

  

  Patsy Cline
  • House
  • Wall
  • Wall-to-wall

• I don't think too much about awards.

  

  Delmon Young
  • Think
  • Much
  • Awards

• Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff in Mother Jones, as part of ramping up daily operations that have resulted in huge gains in audience, a slew of awards, new multimedia endeavors, and of course scoops like the 47 percent.

  

  Clara Jeffery
  • Mother
  • Past
  • Audience

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