Awards Quotes - Page 11

• Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.

  Bob Hope

  House, Welcome, Academy

  "Oscar host Alec Baldwin may also be nominee" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 30, 2009.

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• It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder… why didn't I get this sooner?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  People, Honor, Fey

  "Ellen DeGeneres Birthday: 55 Reasons We Love Her" By Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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

  Burt Reynolds

  Hollywood, Idiot

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

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• I would like to thank ABC for giving me the Drew Carey award. It only goes to one lucky guy with glasses a year, and gosh darn it, tonight I'm the king of the... general area.

  Greg Proops

  Kings, Glasses, Years

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for accomplishing with pinpoint precision and unerring reliability, the feat of sitting exactly where it is sitting. Nothing would prevent us from agreeing with the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn that rocks are smarter than cats because rocks have the sense to go away when you kick them.

  Steven Pinker

  Cat, Rocks, Ideas

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• I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.

  Sheridan Smith

  Mean, Talking, People

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• I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I'm Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I'm not funny?

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, People, Laughing

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• All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

  Marlee Matlin

  Baseball, Stars, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces

  Helen McCrory

  Book, Office, Library

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• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests. This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Art, Kindness, Humble

  Hattie McDaniel's Academy Awards acceptance speech for "Actress in a Supporting Role" Award for the film "Gone with the Wind", aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 29, 1940.

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• I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.

  Bryan Cranston

  Shine On, Light, Dust

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want the national award... I seriously do not need any such thing. I would only want the audience to go and watch the film once and that will be more than enough for me. Once everybody should see the movie and say it is a good watch.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Watches, Needs, Want

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• There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Mean, Bars

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.92, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death?

  Martin Scorsese

  Winning, Sight, Worry

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