Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards.
As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.
At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear.
A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can s...
I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.
Mr. Parker: It's a Major Award! Swede: A Major Award? Shucks, I wouldn't know that. It looks like a lamp. Mr. Parker: It is a lamp, you nincompoop, but it's a Major Award. I won it! Swede: Damn, hell, you say won it? Mr. Parker: Yeah, mind power, Swe...
You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.
The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.
I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'
When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.
One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.
My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Lucy Fisher were honored with the annual award.
