Awards Quotes - Page 4

• I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Comfortable

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Christine Ehren, www.playbill.com. May 21, 2002.

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• I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Winning, Role Models, Roles

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• Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

  Michael Caine

  Careers, Firsts, Slipping

  "Success? I never expected it, says Caine" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 1999.

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• My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

  John Bardeen

  Effort, Collaborative Effort

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• I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mtv, Popcorn, Looks

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• The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Ensemble, Should, Performances

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• 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

  Kids, Spit Up, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

  John Corigliano

  Grew Up, Composer, Wanted

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

  Taylor Lautner

  Nervous, Shows, Award Shows

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• I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

  Peter Lik

  Success, Photography, World

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• Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.

  Sam Smith

  Funny, Thank You, Humorous

  "Before He Was A Grammy Winner - A Conversation With Sam Smith". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 9, 2015.

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• The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

  Javier Bardem

  Order, People, Important

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• I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

  Paula Cole

  Artistic, My Own

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• The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

  Brenda Blethyn

  England, Affair, Wells

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• I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

  Ralph Allen

  Years, Discipline, Three

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• Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Deserving It, Expression, Would Be

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November, 2004.

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• I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Want, Pay, Bus

  "Interview with Steven Cojocaru, 'People'". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. March 25, 2002.

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• I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Party, Hard Work, People

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• I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

  William Petersen

  Jobs, Moving, Want

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• If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

  Martha Reeves

  Long, People, Receiving

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• 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

  Writing, Night, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Distance, Mean, Thinking

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• A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

  Sally Kirkland

  Race, Color, Years

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• The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Song, Nice, Writing

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• Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

  Toni Braxton

  Kids, Successful, Albums

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

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