Awards Quotes - Page 12

• School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

  Amber Heard

  School, College, Bored

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• The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

  Julianna Margulies

  Beautiful, Actors, Rooms

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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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• Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value
  to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith
  in them so I would prefer to stay away.

  Aamir Khan

  Giving, Film, Award Ceremonies

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

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Brave, Rewards

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• Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

  Stephen Chow

  Winning, Matter, Earning

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 20, 2005.

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• I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Guy, Mind, Trying

  "The Contender Q&A: Garret Dillahunt". Interview with Paul Gaita, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 17, 2009.

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• I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

  Micky Dolenz

  Honest, Being Honest

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

  Dan Fogler

  Kids, Film, Stores

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• The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

  Michel Gondry

  Song, Mtv, People

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• I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.

  Dierks Bentley

  Cheer, Nice, Fans

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• Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

  Richard Stallman

  Learning, Giving, Alliances

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• Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.

  Sherry Lansing

  Successful, Afterlife, Giants

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My son was staying with me, and we got up to watch it, just before they announced supporting actress, he came up and put his arm around me. I think it was like, 'Either way, mom, I still love you.' But then it was funny because I saw it. I saw my picture, and I heard them announce it, but I had to ask him, 'Did I really see that?' I wasn't sure I was seeing it, but he assured me that yes, I was nominated for the Academy Award. We just sort of cried a little bit.

  June Squibb

  Mom, Love You, Son

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• Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.

  David Berman

  Creativity, Design, Competition

  David B. Berman (2008). “Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World”, p.140, Peachpit Press

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• The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase his authority - rather, the contrary. This was something Brezhnev and Chernenko did not understand. In all, Stalin had about as many decorations as, say, Mekhlis, and four or five times fewer than Brezhnev

  Dmitri Volkogonov

  Men, Giving, Doe

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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists in allied fields. The award for the best painting went to the canvas of an Illinois artist. It was described as "a macabre, detailed work showing a closed door bearing a funeral wreath." Equally striking was the work's title: "That which I should have done, I did not do."

  James Keller

  Time, Art, Work

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• Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

  Harvey Korman

  Men, Actors, Nominations

  "Fictional character: Hedley Lamarr". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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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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