Awards Quotes - Page 19

• You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a big moment because we were just so excited to be at the awards in the first place. Selling out Madison Square Garden was pretty amazing too. Then we woke to the news that our UK tour was sold out. It was crazy.

  Harry Styles

  Crazy, Winning, Emotional

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

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• Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth) can be. Let me tell you, it is. It's brutal sometimes! But, if I did it, ANYONE can do it. I mean, I always knew I was meant to do something really BIG in life, and now I know that this was it. Screw winning an Academy Award someday ... I GAVE BIRTH

  Jenny McCarthy

  Mother, Pregnancy, Mean

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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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• 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 think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

  Jason Aldean

  Artist, Thinking, Names

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• Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

  John Steinbeck

  Grateful, Pride, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction”, Viking Press

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• If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break in to the Ohio penitentiary.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Stupid, Ohio

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• For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

  Barack Obama

  Greed, President, Taste

  "Obama Announces Executive Pay Caps". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 5, 2009.

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• Any chick that I handle, I teach ‘em patience. How not to win the award but be glad for your nomination.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Winning, Ems, Nominations

  Song: Extra Extra Credit, Album: Flight School, 2009

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• Me and a mate picked up two darling birds and they took us back to their flat. I went into the bedroom with my bird and she started getting undressed. I was that drunk I was standing there wondering how to get undressed without letting go of the award. I went to sit on the bed, missed it by four feet and ended up lying on the floor. I remember the bird looking down at me, and saying, ‘Some player of the year.’ Then I fell asleep. I woke up still clutching my award and staggered out of the flat. I hadn’t a bloody clue where I was.

  George Best

  Letting Go, Lying, Player

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• You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Mother, Baby, Children

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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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• It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

  Alanis Morissette

  Believe, Reason, Music Industry

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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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• When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a huge, self-inflicted and well-deserved black eye. Then will come the billion-dollar awards, by enraged juries, to the children and their families. I can't wait.

  Bernard Rimland

  Children, Eye, Self

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• Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.

  Michael Moore

  Kings, Winning, Games

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• I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

  Helen Mirren

  Queens, Years, Acting

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

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• I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.

  Nicki Minaj

  Believe, Grammy, My Time

  "Nicki Minaj on Grammy Snub: 'I'll Get a Grammy Eventually'" by Josh Grossberg, www.eonline.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.

  James McAvoy

  Party, Keys, Trying

  "James McAvoy Interview - ATONEMENT". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 12, 2007.

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• It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth form and we used to have an end of year celebration and give out different awards. I even got a little trophy!

  Jessica Ennis

  School, Years, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Viggo Mortensen

  Curiosity, Important, Levels

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• Sorry to take your award, Faith ... Everybody knows that it's really not about the numbers and the chart positions and the sales and all that stuff, it's about relationships and my two best friends are at home ... I know you're as excited as I am.

  Martie Maguire

  Sorry, Home, Two Best Friends

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