Nominations Quotes

• I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.

  David O. Russell

  Hard Work, Mean, Boys

  "The fighter: David O. Russell Interview". Interview with Tom Butler, www.ign.com. February 8, 2011.

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• Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Winning, Would Be, Gravy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

  Jeff Bridges

  Oscars

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• I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

  Frankie Muniz

  Today, Golden, Tradition

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

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• I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Awards, People

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• Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Heart, Oscars, Possibility

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

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• Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

  Will Arnett

  Coming Out, Wells, Radar

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• When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Strong, Jobs, Support

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• I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Party, Presidential, Accepting

  Broadcast address to the nation, 31 Mar. 1968

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• I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

  William H. Macy

  Jobs, Agents, Want

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• We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.

  Jay Sekulow

  Texas, Justice, Trying

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• The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

  Carol Kane

  Names, People, Actors

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• If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

  David Allan Coe

  Class, Would Be, Poet

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• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Country, New York, Party

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• Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that

  Lee Ann Womack

  Years, Comes And Goes, Wells

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• Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Years, Issues, Oscars

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• I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

  Norman Jewison

  Thinking, Awards, Done

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• Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Winning, Feelings, Golden

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• Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

  Dick Morris

  Ideas, Mind, Ambitious

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• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  Patrick Leahy

  People, Needs, Lifetime

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

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• I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

  Greg Egan

  Winning, Perspective, Given

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• What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Party, People, President

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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• For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.

  Jean-Marie Lustiger

  Stars, Yellow, Speech

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• I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

  William Peter Blatty

  Thinking, Awards, Watches

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• So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

  Michael Beschloss

  Hard Times, People, Conventions

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