Awards Quotes

• I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Success, Crazy

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• My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

  Denzel Washington

  Party, Enough Time, Matter

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• In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Ends

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• The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.

  William H. Macy

  Drinking, Night, Say Anything

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• Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

  Tony Randall

  Clever, Publicity, Tickets

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• There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

  Clint Eastwood

  Movie, Winning, Actors

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• At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear.

  Mary Hart

  People, Shows, Award Shows

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• It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Winning, Clothes, Dresses

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

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  Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Friendship, Basketball, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Baseball, Mean

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• 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.

  Javier Bardem

  Believe, People, Giving

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• I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

  Ed McBain

  Winning, Musical, Broadway

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• Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Friendship, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

  Gloria Stuart

  Actors, Actresses, Roles

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• The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Business, Achievement, Salary

  Annals of an Abiding Liberal ch. 6 (1979)

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• I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Children, Real, Blessed

  "Walk The Line - Reese Witherspoon interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Surprise, Caught

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• Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

  Sally Kellerman

  Careers, Film, Wells

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. January 10, 2002.

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• Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

  Billy Wilder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Movie

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

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• I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

  Luther Campbell

  Hip Hop, Done, Hips

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• I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Numbers, Records, Want

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• An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

  Javier Bardem

  Actors

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• Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

  James Brown

  Heart, Giving, Mind

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• When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

  Brad Paisley

  Thinking, Should Have, Majority

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

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