Awards Quotes - Page 14

• Do you really miss anything that was worth watching at the MTV Awards?

  Terry Crews

  Mtv, Missing

  "Interview: Terry Crews on ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ superpowers and working with Miss Piggy". Interview With Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. September 27, 2014.

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• First of all you got ESPN, Fox Sports, all that, you don't miss one thing. People don't understand that. Like you could watch the whole NFL, I've got the RedZone coverage, I got my DirecTV stuff. You can watch everything in the NFL in a whole hour and you missed nothing. Anything that was worth watching is going to be played over and over again. It's like the MTV Awards.

  Terry Crews

  Sports, Mtv, Nfl

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• In London I'm not seen in public. I don't go to award ceremonies or gatherings. I just don't go because I like my privacy. I like being with my family and I like being in their company. I work very hard and I don't have much time so I just want to be with my family or in the English countryside. I don't take holidays.

  Marco Pierre White

  Holiday, Gathering, Want

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• I don't think I will ever be able to really articulate how bizarre it was to hear my name at the Academy Awards. I'd watched in my pajamas the year before! I felt numb - dazed and confused. I remember feeling light - weightless. More like limbo than cloud nine. At first I was like, This is my statue; nobody gets to touch it. And by midnight I was like, Please, someone, take this statue; it's too heavy! So I gave it to my brother, and he went off with it.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Brother, Confused, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.

  Billy Eichner

  Kids, Winning, Parent

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year - they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards. So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I've ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up - motley isn't the word for that group. Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage - I had to bury myself in my napkin.

  Bill Murray

  New York, Years, Circles

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

  Denzel Washington

  Realising, Academy Awards, Academy

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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• The Night Journal received two awards that I'm terribly proud of - -the Spur from Western Writers of America, and the Willa Literary Award from Women Writing the West. Both these groups are filled with great writers and good people.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Writing, Night, Two

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• [Didier] Drogba sent me a text message after I won the African Player of the Year award. It made me very happy.

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

  Player, Years, Messages

  Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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• Rent Control was an interesting movie. It was directed by... I had done a couple of plays off Broadway, and this Italian director came, his name was Gian Luigi Polidoro, and he determined I was the person to play the lead in his low-budget comedy. He'd won an award at the Venice Film Festival, and... He was, y'know, a skilled director.

  Brent Spiner

  Couple, Italian, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everyone else can do violence. You know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, they can all do shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger can kill 10 people in one minute, and they don't call it "white exploitation." They win awards and get into all the magazines. But if black people do it, suddenly it's different than if a white person does it. People respond differently because people come from different places.

  Pam Grier

  Winning, White, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• No matter what the award is, you put the right presenters on there, and that award becomes fun.

  Michael De Luca

  Fun, Matter, Presenter

  Source: variety.com

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• I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

  Janet Jackson

  Goal, One Day, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

  Billy Eichner

  Fun, Watches, Arbitrary

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Working with Robin Williams, what can you say? He's the best of the best. What I really liked watching was, not only is he incredible funny, probably the funniest person on Earth which is a tough award to give out, but to see what it really takes to be a huge star is way beyond a good partner being extremely funny.

  John Krasinski

  Stars, Giving, Earth

  "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

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• Having a child is the polar opposite experience of the awards season experience. The awards-season experience requires you to be out in the community, in the heart of the community, at the nucleus of the film community in a really committed way for about a six-month period of time. Having a child requires you to nest, to be in your home, and to create and make your home and environment that is one that is potentially very welcoming and nurturing for a child.

  Mahershala Ali

  Children, Home, Heart

  "New spotlight, new baby for Oscars-bound Mahershala Ali". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 17, 2017.

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• I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

  Tom Hanks

  Games, Cards, Toss

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• A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches are very personal moments that play themselves out in front of billions of people.

  Tom Hanks

  Thinking, Play, People

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• Of course the concept is to give people samples to get them hooked, I get that. But to continuously give away our music, that's the reason why you don't see [many] rap award shows anymore, the reason that you don't see rappers in commercials anymore; because we have allowed our music to be devalued.

  David Banner

  Rap, People, Giving

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• If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  White Privilege, People, Black

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Nine, Grammy, Ifs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Silly, Winning, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You kind of half-prepare a speech in your head, and then you get up there and then you end up saying nothing that was in your head before you went up there. It's a very weird thing. I never do award speeches too well.

  Ed Sheeran

  Half, Speech, Saying Nothing

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• I think that this win [Grammy] in particular was a cool moment for me and the director [Emil Nava], because it was the first award he's ever won.

  Ed Sheeran

  Winning, Thinking, Directors

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• In publishing books and winning awards, it's like you've enjoyed this meal, you know, two months ago. How long can you be nourished by thinking about it? You've already ingested it, and you've excreted it, and that was two months ago. You had this fabulous meal. It's not going to keep you satiated today. You have to go out and get your next meal. For me, that's writing. I have to go out and hunt my next meal.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Book, Writing, Winning

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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