Awards Quotes - Page 31

• Katy Perry still gets me every time. She's very funny in person! We met at the Teen Choice Awards and she pulled my cheeks apart and told me how cute I was. My life was literally flashing before my eyes!

  Niall Horan

  Cute, Eye, Choices

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• As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Artist, Receiving, Way

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• My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports, Team, Hockey

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You’ve just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan says, it’s a pat on the back, so great you’ll take it and then move on.

  Clint Eastwood

  Moving, Giving, Mind

  "Invictus - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

  John Lahr

  Talking, Play, Three

  "Lahr’s Tony Picks: The 2012 Edition". www.newyorker.com.

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• It depends as there's many different types of chefs, some who cook for awards and others who cook to make their restaurant a great business. There are those who cook for a lifestyle, they'll have come through pubs and they like to have the connection to the farmers and the chickens and the natural produce. So for each chef it'll be slightly different.

  Paul Rankin

  Connections, Different, Chef

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I'm not out trying to prove anything. All I'm trying to do is go out there and help my team any way I can to win. I don't get caught up in the individual stats or the awards.

  Steve McNair

  Team, Winning, Trying

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• When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to get it. It's going to be shelved in crime and it's just the way it is. I've done something that no one else has ever done; I've started out as a mystery writer, a police writer, and a crime writer, and I became something entirely different.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Thinking, Police

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

  Charles Stross

  Style, Trying, Different

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• I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the colleges with these kids for lectures, as an honorary professor or whatever, and this Chinese girl I like very much who I give the award to says to me, "You don't know how much you inspired me to do shoes." And I'm glad that I convey that kind of desire to people when they see my bloody shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Kids, College

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Comedy is hard to do, and I don't know why it doesn't have its own category in awards. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. It doesn't get respect. It's hard. It's really hard. It would be more gratifying to get something for a comedy, because it doesn't happen much or at all.

  Leslie Mann

  Drama, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Sports, Player, Winning

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I'm incredibly proud to have been nominated in the past and it really means a lot to me because I do work very hard when I'm making a film and I do really do absolutely give my all. To get that kind of pat on the back, it's really amazing and also never something that I anticipated would possibly happen to me, ever. So I am very, very proud to have been there before. And, you know, the nice thing about nominations is that, same as awards, no one can actually take them away from you and I'm proud of that.

  Kate Winslet

  Nice, Mean, Past

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school newspaper. So I knew that I was a good writer and I wanted to somehow capitalize and sort of utilize a talent that I thought I had.

  Halle Berry

  School, Editors, Talent

  "Halle Berry Is the Perfect Stranger". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. April 9, 2007.

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• My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a lot of awards. I've tried to very, very rigorously be highly subjective about what I do. And that's something that I think I have basically lived by.

  Glenn Close

  Writing, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

  David Fincher

  People, Guy, Intellectual

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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• Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

  Ben Kingsley

  Letting Go, Wife, Directors

  Interview with Reed Tucker, www.esquire.com. March 30, 2007.

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• As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.

  Martin Scorsese

  Kids, Winning, Hands

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Baby, Sex, People

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

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• GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award-winning vehicles and components produced in Canada.

  Al Green

  Winning, Agreement, Momentum

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• Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

  Mike Rogers

  Hard Work, Healthy, May

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• As soon as you meet him [james Corden], within five minutes you'll want to sleep with him. He presented me with my award for Comedy Actress of the Year at the Glamour Awards and he said such lovely things. He's so charming and he listens to you and he's funny and sensitive and adorable. I can totally see why all the women fall for him.

  Joanna Page

  Fall, Sleep, Years

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I accept all awards. I like them.

  Martin Scorsese

  Accepting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Dad, Ideas, Acting

  "Ed Begley Jr. on Blunt Talk, St. Elsewhere, and Spinal Tap". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2015.

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• Sadly most films only get exposure if they win an award or were in a festival, which is really difficult because those things cost money! Submitting your film to a festival or campaigning for an Oscar or a Golden Globe is very expensive. Most people don't know that, but all those events require a lot of money. If you have a small independent film, it's very hard to get the attention of people in those circles.

  Kate del Castillo

  Independent, Winning, Circles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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