Quotes of: Academy-awards Keyword

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

John Corigliano

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

John Lithgow

Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

Kevin Bacon

I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.

Nia Long

We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.

Roma Downey

The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.

William H. Macy

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.

Denis Leary

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

Denzel Washington

I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

Henry Rollins

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

Harold Prince

I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

Jason Aldean

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

Jeff Bridges

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing.

David Nail

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

Dan Fogler

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

Joely Fisher

The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Najib Razak

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.

Rigoberta Menchu

I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.

Anthony Warlow

That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.

Scott Aukerman

Isaac Davis: When it comes to relationships with women, I'm the winner of the August Strindberg Award.

Manhattan

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

Marguerite Young