Awards Quotes - Page 21

• Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

  Justin Timberlake

  Choices, Denim, Pay

  "Playboy Interview: Justin Timberlake". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. June 13, 2011.

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• As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.

  Johnny Carson

  Two, Four, Entertainment

  "The 51st Annual Academy Awards", TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Past, Hands, Giving

  "Sigourney Weaver attacks Oscar voters". www.newyorkpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Dirty, Contests, Obscene

  "Oscars Speeches: Top 10 That Were Super Gracious" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2015.

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• It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago to reform House Republicans, who are feeling the heat from lobbyist scandals. Well, CNN found out that he rents his two-bedroom apartment from a lobbyist who had clients who had interests in legislation that Boehner sponsored. And for that, Mr. Boehner, you've just won a pair of Stephen Colbert's big brass balls.

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Cnn, Majority Leader

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• I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Years, Brain

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• Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.

  Jimmy Carr

  Winning, Excitement, Wonder

  "The boy behind the man". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2004.

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• We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Simple, Hands

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• I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, America, People

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• ...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Crush, Winning, Elderly

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2006). “Notes from the Midnight Driver”

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• The audience's reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it's because they love how we've acted. That's the most beautiful award. It's very important for me, people appreciating what I do.

  Kate Winslet

  Beautiful, Believe, People

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• I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.

  Anna Paquin

  Jobs, People, Judging

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• So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you don't read "fantasy," because you prefer stories that are real. Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Real, Book, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.2399, Macmillan

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• Honey, there’s not a single woman in this town who doesn’t know about Sanctuary, Land of the Bodacious Gods. Heck, me and my girlfriends want to get together and vote Mama Lo an award for her policy against hiring any man not seriously buff…Not that you’re not buff. You can certainly hold your own against the Sanctuary Hotties. But face it, haven’t you ever noticed that this place is like Hooters for women? (Sunshine) No, I can honestly say that I’ve never noticed how good-looking the men at Sanctuary are. Nor have I ever cared. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girlfriend, Sunshine, Men

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.328, Macmillan

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• I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Independent, Spirit

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• Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and it was only once it was past that I realized that my body had been holding on by a thread to get through this very intense experience. Nothing can prepare you for awards season. The red carpet feels like a war zone, except you cannot fly or fight; you just have to stand there and take it.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  War, Fighting, Past

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• The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.

  Gordon Korman

  Dog, Book, Library

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• On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy Krueger. Granuaile MacTiernan

  Kevin Hearne

  Freddy Krueger, Hello, Kitties

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• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  Jacki Weaver

  Travel, Twilight, Adventure

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Daughter, Mother, Appreciation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.

  Peter Facinelli

  Soccer, Daughter, Mother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't care about awards and public image. We know the business of entertainment. We worship our work, we worship our clients and we worship profitability.

  Shailender Singh

  Business, Passion, Clients

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• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Crazy, Winning, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reading, Giving

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• Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Powerful, Cat, Eye

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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