Awards Quotes - Page 6

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

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.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

I've worked for everything I've ever got and it's worked out. Even if I was the Cy Young Award winner I still would not want to feel that sense of entitlement. I would still treat every game like it's my very first game and my very last game.

I stopped singing and they gave me an award.

The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

It's great to be recognized for work, and the work is great, but once you have the awards, it becomes less important. It just gives you the ability to do better work, in my opinion.

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.

A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're given for artistic decisions. And sometimes we make them better than others, and I guess we made a couple of good ones on this one.

I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.

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.

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

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

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

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

Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please.

I've always thought that when anyone receives an award for acting they should always thank their fellow actors, because the only way you're going to deliver your best performance is when you have other good actors on the set supporting you and being very present for you even when the camera is not on them.

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.