Awards Quotes - Page 5

• I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

  Tea Leoni

  Clothes, Dresses, Pay

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

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• Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Association, Partners

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, Vintage

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• It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!

  Christopher Parker

  Lines, Interviews, Enjoy

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• My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

  Cat Deeley

  Mtv, Giving, Dresses

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• Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

  Portia de Rossi

  Dresses, Looks, Designer

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

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• The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast I can't remember what I said or what happened.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Apology, Night, Mind

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• The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

  Alicia Keys

  Long, House, Want

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• It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Party, People, World

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• Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Zero, Cat, Hunting

  "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2". Interview with Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

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• I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

  John Pople

  College, October, Examination

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• The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

  Robert Graves

  Writing, Gold, Purity

  Robert Graves (1962). “Oxford Addresses on Poetry”

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• To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Noise, Way

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• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  Jack Nicholson

  School, Pimples, Gross

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• This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Meaningful, Celluloid, Dealer

  On receiving American Film Institute's 1979 Lifetime Achievement Award, recalled on his death, April 29, 1980.

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• I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

  Nicole Kidman

  Winning, Musical

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

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• The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

  Kirk Douglas

  Long, Enough, Ifs

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• The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

  Robert Hofstadter

  Honor, Fields, Research

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• I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

  Angela Lansbury

  Mean, Age, Ridiculous

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• I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

  Pat Morita

  Real, Kids, Awkward

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• I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

  Sharon Stone

  Careers, Golden, Moments

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• Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

  Barbra Streisand

  Giving, Discouraging, Knows

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• Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

  Bill Murray

  Acting, Campaigns, Disdain

  "Murray Upset at Oscar Result". www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2004.

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• Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

  John Lithgow

  Perspective, Bigs, Statues

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• If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

  Annie Proulx

  Smart, Independent, Years

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• Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

  Sharon Stone

  Friends, Stars, Believe

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