Awards Quotes - Page 8

• If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If you want to be a great copywriter, please your reader.

  Steve Hayden

  Winning, Clients, Want

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• I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

  Louise Penny

  Successful, Thinking, Care

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• I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.

  George Clooney

  Weekend, Winning, Goal

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

  Hermione Gingold

  Success, America, United States

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• Did you see Britney Spears at the Video Music Awards? I don't want to say that that performance was a disaster, but after the show, I saw Rudy Giuliani having his picture taken standing on her.

  Bill Maher

  Taken, Saws, Video

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• I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'

  Matt Stone

  Couple, Party, Talk To Me

  "Interview: Trey Parker and Matt Stone". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

  Carrie Fisher

  Bipolar, Done, Being Me

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• When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

  Denis Leary

  Rocks, Mtv, Rock And Roll

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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• I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.

  Halle Berry

  Lonely, Artist, Night

  "Comic-Con: Halle Berry On Shattering Stereotypes, ‘Extant’ & ‘Storm’ Movie". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 8, 2015.

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• For me, awards are not what I really care about - the work is what I really care about. And, I am especially proud that I was acknowledged for doing work that I was so proud of and that meant a lot to me.

  Michael Cerveris

  Care, Proud

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.

  Tara Reid

  Dream, Kids, Winning

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

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• I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

  Seth Rogen

  Giving, Mars, Speech

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• People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.

  Manisha Koirala

  Winning, Games, Play

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

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• I've been lucky enough to work with the amazing Golden Globe Award winning Chris Colfer and that is fantastic. I get to work with him on a day-to-day basis and he is such a generous talent. Chris and I like to play. He always throws me things and I ping them back to him and it's really fun. We definitely have a very lovely rapport personally - I think on screen too - and I hope you can see that in the characters.

  Darren Criss

  Fun, Character, Winning

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• I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

  Laraine Day

  Winning, Academy Awards, Academy

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• I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

  Eva Green

  Believe, Ego, Very Good

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Winning, Law, Ideas

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• There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

  Kevin Bacon

  Winning, Opportunity, Two

  “Piers Morgan Tonight”, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2011.

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• People who are successful should never forget that its 90 per cent luck. Youve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - Blankety Blank, the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

  Terry Wogan

  Successful, Winning, Years

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• I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Running, Winning, Foundation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

  Dan Stevens

  Nice, Rags, Glad

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

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• I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

  James Callis

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Battlestar Galactica's James Callis". Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2008.

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• I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.

  Kurt Fuller

  Numbers, Watches, Sour

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and that focus translates into people buying tickets to see movies or download films, legitimately download them. And it keeps us all at work. So I'm a big fan of award shows.

  Liam Neeson

  People, Focus, Golden

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.

  Zachary Levi

  Fun, Thinking, Ideas

  "Spike VGAs Interview: Meet Your Host, Zachary Levi". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. December 5, 2011.

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