Quotes on the topic: Awards


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You don't want a movie to have a lot of awards and no audience.


I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.


I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.


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


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


I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.


Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.


People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices.


I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.


I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now.


I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.


This is the thing I have with awards: If awards would make your movie more pretty, I would really get super excited about it. But your movie's done. You get awards, you don't get awards... They don't make your movie more ugly or pretty.


The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent.


Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.


It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.


I have not won far more awards than I have won.


Over the years, people have asked me, 'Do you think there should be a separate category for acting in the digital realm? Or hybrid sort of awards for digital characters?' and so on. And I've always really maintained that I don't believe so.


Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.


Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards.


Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.