Award Quotes

‘Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.’ – Denzel Washington

‘Winning an award is always a special moment.’ – Ravi Kishan

‘An award recognizing your talent is an honor. That matters a lot to me.’ – Payal Rohatgi

‘To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.’ – James Welch

‘My biggest achievement more than any award is contributing in a winning cause for my team.’ – Ravindra Jadeja

‘It doesn’t matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.’ – Zinedine Zidane

‘The greatest award is the appreciation of the people.’ – Gopi Sundar

‘It’s not like after winning an award, your job is done and you can relax. You still have to work hard.’ – Diljit Dosanjh

‘I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.’ – Jack Benny

‘For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that’s the most reward thing in the world.’ – Busta Rhymes

‘To be honored by your peers is incredibly gratifying and I am so thankful to my colleagues across the league for this recognition. I’m also grateful to the talented and dedicated coaching staff I work with every day in Toronto. To be recognized with an award that bears Michael H. Goldberg’s name is very special.’ – Dwane Casey

‘I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.’ – Steven Wright

‘It’s always special when you receive an award. Up here in the big leagues is special.’ – Trea Turner

‘For me, honestly, it’s not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It’s about what I’ve got to do and how I can contribute to the team.’ – Sheryl Swoopes

‘I am beyond blessed and humbled to be named the Paul Hornung Award winner.’ – Christian McCaffrey

‘Winning or not winning an award doesn’t affect me. I just like to do my work in the best possible manner.’ – KK

‘Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.’ – Billy Wilder

‘When I receive an award it gives me more encouragement, hope and drive to go forward with my voice to sing better and better.’ – Kumar Sanu

‘Awards are an encouragement. An award is not something we aim at while making a film.’ – Vetrimaaran

‘I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, and I was nominated for an Academy Award. My head got inflated. My friends were the real ones who said, ‘You’re acting different.’ But the truth is that I don’t need that, because I don’t get out of hand.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio

‘Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.’ – Mariah Carey

‘The funny thing is I’m not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, ‘Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I’m totally grateful, but I’m not Latin. I can’t do that. I play Latin.” – Vanessa Ferlito

‘I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that’s, of course, wonderful. I’m really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.’ – Morgan Freeman

‘The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment.’ – Wynonna Judd

‘I am honored to be receiving the Point Courage Award.’ – Wilson Cruz

‘I’ve only kept one award in my whole life, and it’s the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It’s awesome.’ – Zack Greinke

‘It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.’ – Kapil Dev

‘I would never win an award for not loving pizza.’ – Dwayne Johnson

‘I actually got a part in ‘The Love Guru’, that Mike Myers film. I heard it’s awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I’m quite proud of, but I still haven’t seen it. I have no plans to branch out.’ – Daniel Tosh

‘Frankly, I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin because then you kind of give some credence and credibility to this butcher, this KGB agent, which is what he is.’ – John McCain

‘I am both humbled and honored to receive the Honda Sports Award for women’s basketball.’ – Brittney Griner

‘I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!’ – Shirley Temple

‘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

‘You know those award shows. The cliche is that it’s an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don’t know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it’s deserving.’ – Hank Azaria

‘I want to win the MVP. I feel like, at the end of the day, it might be an individual award, but when I play better, the team also does.’ – Joel Embiid

‘My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.’ – Denzel Washington

‘Wearing a tuxedo isn’t as simple as it sounds. I’ve been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It’s surprisingly easy to go off the rails.’ – Paul Feig

‘As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I’d get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest.’ – Leonard Cohen

‘In the end it’s about the work, not an award you get for the work.’ – Linda Fiorentino

‘It’s something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It’s the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it’d definitely be a dream come true.’ – Johnny Manziel

‘I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.’ – Vidya Balan

‘School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.’ – Amber Heard

‘I got an award for Most Improved Player for volleyball in tenth grade that I cared about a lot.’ – Ari Shaffir

‘I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It’s a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.’ – Chuck D

”Spamalot’ was a blip! I’ve never done anything else like that, and yet it’s the only time I’ve ever been nominated for an Olivier award!’ – Tom Goodman-Hill

‘I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn’t not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.’ – Richard Carmona

‘I’m not a huge award type person, that’s not really what lights my fire.’ – Morgan Wallen

‘It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that. It’s been very helpful for my career, but I’m trying to stay on the path I was on before.’ – Adrien Brody

‘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

‘I’ll never try to win an award. I’m out there just playing for my team.’ – Kawhi Leonard

‘When I was young, I really wanted to be a part of the end-of-year awards shows, but now that I’m actually there, it feels weird. I used to go to church and ended the year with a prayer, but now I spend it with people I’m not very familiar with at an award show, and I wonder if it’s something I should be doing.’ – Park Bo-gum

‘I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, ‘What’s your end game? What’s your goal with this?’ And I said to him, ‘You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.’ And he said, ‘OK’.’ – Ki Hong Lee

‘I think it’s difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.’ – Martin Garrix

‘You mustn’t take any award so seriously.’ – Tony Randall

‘To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.’ – Don Simpson

‘What it meant for me to win the Emmy is I found it. It’s not just the award. It’s what it’s going to mean to young girls – young brown girls, especially. When they saw a physical manifestation of a dream, I felt like I had fulfilled a purpose.’ – Viola Davis

‘I’ve never won an award for anything, and I think it’s weird. I mean, that’s really cool but it’s strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.’ – Bobby Cannavale

‘If the award comes with a check, then I want that award. But if it doesn’t come with a check, then I’m not that interested. I’d much rather join NASCAR and get a trophy and a check.’ – Tiffany Haddish

‘The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.’ – Bob Cousy

‘I think in order to accomplish anything in life, you have to visualize yourself there – accepting the award, hearing your song on the radio, whatever it is – or you lose the willpower and the drive.’ – Daya

‘When you look at not just for Sixth Man but also for any award in the NBA even when it comes to the MVP, you should look at their impact to their team.’ – Tristan Thompson

‘I don’t like going out or attending award ceremonies.’ – Ranjeet

‘I don’t think winning an award changes things. It makes you feel happy.’ – Neha Bhasin

‘Because Ernest Lawrence’s award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.’ – Luis Walter Alvarez

‘I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn’t buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘I am overjoyed to receive the Michael H. Goldberg Coach of the Year Award from the National Basketball Coaches Association.’ – Monty Williams

‘I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.’ – Lester B. Pearson

‘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

‘That’s always – that’s been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.’ – Janet Jackson

‘I feel the first award any artist can have is his audience.’ – Romeo Santos

‘I was fortunate and worked hard to graduate top of my class as a primary school teacher and receive the Vere Foster Award, which is the medal given to the graduate who attains the highest mark in teaching practice.’ – Sinead Burke

‘I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.’ – Denzel Washington

‘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

‘I love my role in ‘Deshamuduru’ but I did not get any award.’ – Ali

‘I don’t need an award to inspire me to keep making music.’ – Jake Bugg

‘I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.’ – Stephen Dorff

‘Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.’ – Gail Sheehy

‘I can’t say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.’ – Chantal Kreviazuk

‘I think every artist wants to have that ‘Grammy award winner’ tag in front of their name.’ – Jason Aldean

‘I am a very shy and closed person. I stay in my house. The only time I go out is for award functions and maybe interviews. Because, this is part of my profession and I have to do it. Otherwise, I stay in my house or attend some classes.’ – Disha Patani

‘An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.’ – Shreya Ghoshal

‘People who are successful should never forget that it’s 90 per cent luck. You’ve 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

‘I got the Clarence Durbin Award, the Equity Award – which is cool because it has a cash prize which is cooler than a trophy, especially when you’re a struggling actor, and you can’t pay rent.’ – Alan Tudyk

‘For every stand-up comedian, Just for Laughs is our Super Bowl. Every comic in the world goes to Just for Laughs in Montreal. And they presented me with the Stand-Up Comedian of the Year award for 2018. This is my Oscar; this is my Emmy. That’s my baby now.’ – Jo Koy

‘When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.’ – Amartya Sen

‘The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.’ – Brian Boitano

‘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

‘I heard I won ‘best butt crack’ on television recently. It’s true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it’s a closed set.’ – Lisa Edelstein

‘I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.’ – Doug Davidson

‘For me, it’s more important to win a team award, like a World Cup.’ – Manuel Neuer

‘Tiger Woods has been one of my best friends for 25 years. I first met Tiger at an event I was hosting in Chicago; he was getting an award.’ – Ahmad Rashad

‘To even be considered for an MVP award is fairly awesome for me.’ – Jose Altuve

‘There’s nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I’m nominated for an award – that is so funny to me.’ – T. J. Miller

‘It’s incredible to win an individual award in a team sport and also one where everybody wants to be able to say, ‘I’m the best.” – Kaka

‘The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.’ – Tyne Daly

‘Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They’re to promote each other’s movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they’ll go to see them. It’s still the same.’ – Javier Bardem

‘There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.’ – Chris Klein

‘Any award the NBA gives you, whether it’s on the court or off the court, it’s definitely an honor.’ – Tristan Thompson

‘When I went to Baylor on a basketball scholarship – and when I thought about the future as a freshman – one achievement I wanted more than any individual award was a national championship.’ – Brittney Griner

‘I won an ASCAP award two years in a row – that was sick.’ – Goldlink

”Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.’ – Bill Murray

‘It is not justice when you beat someone after tying their hands, but award a clean chit to another who openly confesses his crimes.’ – Nawaz Sharif

‘If you’re at an award ceremony, you’re against your mates.’ – Imelda Staunton

‘Eleven years ago, my wife and I had had a baby, so I didn’t go to Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in years. Tim Key won the comedy award and I was sat at home with the baby feeling very jealous, genuinely.’ – Alex Horne

‘When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.’ – Jack Nicholson

‘After I failed to win the Most Valuable Player Award in 1960, I made up my mind I’d win the batting title in 1961 for the first time.’ – Roberto Clemente

‘I acted in ‘Almost Famous.’ My album ‘Fingerprints’ won a Grammy Award in 2007. Even more prestigious, as far as my kids were concerned, I appeared in episodes of ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Family Guy.” – Peter Frampton

‘My name had been sent for the award for Best Supporting Actor in ‘Tere Naam,’ but I missed it.’ – Ravi Kishan

‘This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.’ – Alfred Hitchcock

‘Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.’ – William Gilmore Simms

‘I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.’ – Tom Jones

‘An Oscar means a lot of things because it’s like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you’re creating you shouldn’t think about it.’ – Alejandro Amenabar

‘I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I’m now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.’ – Evan Hunter

‘Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.’ – Valerie Harper

‘Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.’ – David Hunt

‘You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that’s the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.’ – Orlando Jones

‘The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.’ – Marguerite Young

‘I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I’ll do it again now.’ – Jane Wyman

‘We were the laughingstock of that first season… It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.’ – Roma Downey

‘I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.’ – Aaron Neville

‘As a songwriter, there’s nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn’t really celebrate, because it wasn’t right. Luther wasn’t standing next to me, to receive the award.’ – Richard Marx

‘Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.’ – Charles Vest

‘The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else’s performances.’ – Jeffrey Tambor

‘If one thing that bothers me about acting, it’s that there’s no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I’m going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I’m the best!’ – Dana Hill

‘I’d say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I’d won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.’ – Marie Windsor

‘So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it’s a degraded award.’ – Tony Randall

‘I was surprised I won the award because I’ve always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I’m an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players.’ – Sue Wicks

‘Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face – for me that would be deserving of an award.’ – Elfriede Jelinek

‘Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it’s not where you start but where you end up.’ – Kevin Johnson

‘I think the thing’s that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven’t come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50’s when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn’t win the Tony Award.’ – Andrew Lloyd Webber

‘I don’t want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn’t sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?’ – Ian St. John

‘Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.’ – John Thorn

‘The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That’s the only principle meaning of any award.’ – Javier Bardem

‘An award doesn’t necessarily make you a better actor.’ – Javier Bardem

‘The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women’s rights activities is one I treasure.’ – Patty Duke

‘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

‘Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it’s on a weekly critical basis or whether it’s award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.’ – Ivan Reitman

‘My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.’ – John Bardeen

‘I love what I’m doing most of the time, but it’s hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don’t know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.’ – Gavin Rossdale

‘When they say you’re the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.’ – Brad Paisley

‘I find there’s almost no place to put an award that one’s quite comfortable with.’ – Mercedes Ruehl

‘At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear.’ – Mary Hart

‘Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.’ – Tatum O’Neal

‘At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.’ – Anita Roddick

‘When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.’ – Solomon Ortiz

‘Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.’ – Sally Kellerman

‘I’m thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he’s won an Academy Award, he’s talking to me about directing a movie he’s in. So you just think that it’s Hollywood stuff or whatever.’ – Barry Levinson

‘It’s funny that it all becomes about clothes. It’s bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it’s all about your dress. You can’t get away from it.’ – Reese Witherspoon

‘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

‘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

‘I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that’s made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination – that’s when I watch my movies.’ – William Peter Blatty

‘Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, ’cause his mind went back over the early days.’ – James Brown

‘The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work – which I thought was okay.’ – Harold Pinter

‘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

‘I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.’ – John Pople

‘The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.’ – Kenneth G. Wilson

‘Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I’ve been available to pick up an award.’ – Michael Caine

‘I’m glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.’ – John Corigliano

‘You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it’s a completely meaningless award.’ – John Corigliano

‘You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.’ – Minnie Driver

‘I never knew I’d be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.’ – Nicole Kidman

‘I don’t know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it’s crazy. It’s such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It’s like winning the lottery. I’m proud to be a member of such an amazing cast – that’s the best award of all.’ – Hailee Steinfeld

‘It’s really wonderful that it’s the whole franchise being recognized and it’s a collective award. Each film has anywhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people working on it and so really the award is for each and every one of us. We are like a family.’ – David Heyman

‘I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn’t have a zip code. It’s too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn’t farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.’ – Rick Perry

‘I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.’ – Brandy Norwood

‘I mean, we make a 15-minute show that’s incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we’d even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.’ – Seth Green

‘We’ve been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.’ – Matt Stone

‘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

‘I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I’ve done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don’t think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.’ – Kate Bosworth

‘Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.’ – Sheryl Swoopes

‘Sometimes I say to myself, ‘Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award’, although I’m not that bothered.’ – David Sedaris

‘In India I’ve been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it’s in English so it’s a much bigger scale.’ – Anil Kapoor

‘JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ – I mean, he’s a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.’ – Charlene Tilton

‘I’m a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I’m never going to win the National Book Award.’ – Seth Grahame-Smith

‘I’d said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.’ – John Hawkes

‘I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it’s the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It’s the greatest brand. It’s as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It’s the Super Bowl.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, ‘okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it’s a good film, and it’s up for an award – well, I guess it should win the award then.” – Guy Pearce

‘I’m a terrible interviewer. I’m not a journalist – although I have a Peabody Award – and I’m not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.’ – Craig Ferguson

‘I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I’d seen at a distance for years.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘When you’re up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it’s hard to concentrate on the show.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.’ – Helen Hunt

‘I would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a ‘Song of the Year’ award.’ – Miranda Lambert

‘Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.’ – Melissa Rosenberg

‘If you wanna give me an award, I’ll take it. Just don’t make me go to the party afterwards.’ – John Cusack

‘The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.’ – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

‘I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I’m up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they’ll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they’ve clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!’ – Jason Isaacs

‘The Heisman is the biggest award I’ve ever won.’ – Barry Sanders

‘Tim O’Brien’s book about Vietnam, ‘The Things They Carried’, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it’s fiction.’ – Dave Eggers

‘All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn’t – it’s not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you’re getting an award. And the next day, you’re getting a death threat.’ – Nancy Grace

‘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

‘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

‘I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it’s a very humbling thing.’ – David Nail

”The Dance Scene’ is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The motivation I have to give each dancer on that set.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice – the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.’ – Martin Amis

‘After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.’ – Dan Fogler

‘I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum’ and to my surprise she auctioned them off.’ – Kate Atkinson

‘The awards world can be ridiculous, but I’m not one to bash it. I love awards! When I’ve been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn’t have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.’ – Paul Feig

‘I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I’ve spent enough time in audition rooms. I don’t want to be doing that in my afterlife.’ – Rachael Taylor

‘I don’t really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.’ – Rachael Taylor

‘I’m an ensemble guy, I guess – that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I’d try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don’t see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can’t keep doing the things you want to do.’ – Garret Dillahunt

‘Never mind what you’ve heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘How important is failure – yes, failure – to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India’s largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.’ – Naveen Jain

‘When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn’t really have a shot.’ – Wesley Schultz

‘My first paying gig was a play called ‘The Voice of the Prairie’ at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster – a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s – and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn’t get hired for a year.’ – Denis O’Hare

‘It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like ‘Goon Squad’ could win an award like that. It’s such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I’ll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.’ – Jennifer Egan

‘Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.’ – Pramoedya Ananta Toer

‘Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn’t anyone on earth – not you, not me, not the girl next door – who wouldn’t like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night.’ – Sue Mengers

‘The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.’ – Pankaj Patel

‘I think it’s my nature to – every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must’ve been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics’ awards.’ – Jesse Eisenberg

‘I’m not that ambitious chick. I’m not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I’ve just never been that girl. I’ve always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he’s already blessed me with a lot.’ – Yvette Nicole Brown

‘A ‘GQ’ award is kind of, like, insane. It’s a huge thing.’ – Mark Ronson

‘The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they’re handing it out.’ – Harold Prince

”Y Tu Mama Tambien’ is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won’t take a movie that’s not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.’ – Alfonso Cuaron

‘I don’t know if anybody’s ever ready for another award season. It’s kind of like Christmas.’ – James McAvoy

‘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

‘I really, really like ‘Eastbound & Down.’ It’s one of the few things that makes me laugh. It’s almost too funny to get an award.’ – Denis Leary

‘When you get performance slots for award shows – that’s a big deal for me.’ – Luke Bryan

‘I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.’ – Robert Sean Leonard

‘I like to dress up and look nice. I’m not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it’s nice to push the boat out a little bit for award ceremonies and stuff.’ – Simon Bird

‘My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Lucy Fisher were honored with the annual award.’ – Sharon Lawrence

‘Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is that while I’d give my father the money I earned, anything that was special to me – like an award or an album – would be given to my mother.’ – Sonu Nigam

‘I did a short film called ‘Disco’ and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there’s lots more to come.’ – Charlie Rowe

‘I’m always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.’ – Peter Cullen

‘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

‘I get nervous before everything – dates, filming, award shows. I just don’t want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I’m with.’ – Taylor Lautner

‘At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, you’re thinking, ‘How the hell am I here? All these people I’ve never met are here, and it’s so cool!’ And then, as time goes on, it’s a little bit like, ‘Ah… it’s more like work.” – Emma Stone

‘I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?’ – Michael Palin

‘I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.’ – Joanne Woodward

‘Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn’t matter. They’re cool.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.’ – Queen Latifah

‘I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.’ – Rita Dove

‘I’m not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I’m blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.’ – Erykah Badu

‘Here’s the thing – I mean, I don’t act for statues. I really don’t. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you’re responsible for snacks after the game.’ – Garth Brooks

‘I won an Academy Award for ‘The Cider House Rules,’ playing an American.’ – Michael Caine

‘White people are very good at acting like they’re not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.’ – Paul Mooney

‘I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.’ – Ian Gomez

‘Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the ‘Human Stain.’ I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for ‘Kramer vs Kramer.” – Wentworth Miller

‘It’s always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something.’ – Leslie Mann

‘I think that no matter whether you’re Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it’s like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.’ – Robert Osborne

‘For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, ‘Academy Award winner so-and-so.” – Robert Osborne

‘It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award.’ – Henry Winkler

‘I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I’m above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I’m just not very good at them.’ – Christopher Lloyd

‘I don’t think I’ve done any profound work yet… People ask me, ‘How would you want to be remembered?’ I tell them I don’t want to be remembered! I’m not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I’m not that kind of a person. And I’m not brash about it; it’s just the way I am.’ – Bipasha Basu

‘I go for a couple of parties; you won’t find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried attending for the first three to four years, and I’ve performed at award shows. I sat in them, and I’ve also exited pretty fast from them. It’s just not my place. I’d rather get their adulation in a cinema hall.’ – Emraan Hashmi

‘I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn’t turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That’s when I realised the truth behind it all.’ – Emraan Hashmi

‘I don’t want awards. I am not saying this like it’s a case of sour grapes. It isn’t. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn’t give me the kick that it does to others.’ – Emraan Hashmi

‘Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don’t enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.’ – Anushka Sharma

‘My mother thinks I’m a national treasure. She’s the only one who thinks my Golden Kela award is the greatest gift ever.’ – Cyrus Broacha

‘I’d rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.’ – Laraine Day

‘When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honor. I didn’t really realize how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.’ – Dirk Nowitzki

‘In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.’ – Hack Wilson

‘Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.’ – Sendhil Mullainathan

‘WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for – presidential medal of honor.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘It doesn’t matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather not garner any of those things and speak honestly about the things that I see my people endure in this country and all over the world.’ – Christian Scott

‘In 1990, I was in ‘The Three Sisters’ at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha – the prize was ¬£100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.’ – Lesley Manville

‘I’ve won some awards. ‘Time’ magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I’ve got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn’t get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.’ – Paul Watson

‘Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it’s like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It’s very gratifying.’ – Brad Thor

‘When I started my blog, it was really this one goal – I said, ‘I am not going to be famous to the world, but I could be famous to people on the Internet.’ And I set a goal. I said, ‘I’m going to win an award,’ because I had never won an award in my entire life.’ – Mena Grabowski Trott

‘By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win – I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.’ – Michael Strahan

‘The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a credential, or win a Disrupt or Launch award to go prove their idea is worthy. They just… put up a page on the web, iterate, iterate, iterate… and eventually, a Facebook emerges.’ – John Battelle

‘I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the type of cultural conversation that a role like Giancarlo Esposito on ‘Breaking Bad,’ or actually any of the people on ‘Breaking Bad.’ I would love to have a role in a feature film that was a cultural talking point.’ – Stephen Amell

‘The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don’t need a degree. You don’t need to win an award. It’s just about how you look.’ – Cameron Russell

‘Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.’ – Seamus Heaney

‘Charity only works when smart, innovative, compassionate people in the field are supported from home. The World of Children Award raises money and visibility for change makers, people doing the real work. We are a conduit for funding and resources only; all of our operating costs are covered by our generous board of governors.’ – Stephanie March

‘I love New York City in the fall, and one of my favorite events of the season is the annual World of Children Award Gala, at which I have the profound pleasure of meeting the newest class of changemakers for children who are there to receive their World of Children Award.’ – Stephanie March

‘I have a Tony Award now. It hasn’t changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and TV stuff, where people will see me more easily now because they know me.’ – Casey Nicholaw

‘Because I’ve got an AFI award, I feel there is a certain expectation when I walk into a room, you know, that ‘That Deb Mailman must know something!’ But I’m just as nervous with every experience. I still doubt whether or not I can pull something off. I still think, ‘When is the review going to come along that says Deb Mailman’s not very good?” – Deborah Mailman

‘I’ve trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.’ – Shari Sebbens

‘I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.’ – James Callis

‘I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don’t win this award – I’m still Sam at the end of the day. And that’s what defines me.’ – Sam Bradford

‘It is true I’d rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.’ – Malcolm McDowell

‘I’m not aiming for an Academy Award.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘To get the Nickelodeon award? That’s like ‘it.’ It’s one of the best. It’s definitely where you want to be in your career.’ – Nelly

‘Several years ago, I was asked by a songwriter’s association to go to Nashville – I think it involved some kind of award – and be part of the showcase. It was myself and Stevie Winwood and Michael McDonald and then some country people that I didn’t know. The whole community was just so welcoming to me.’ – Justin Hayward

‘The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.’ – Sharon Jones

‘To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I’d done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.’ – Amisha Patel

‘It’s nice to get any awards, whether it’s lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.’ – Randy Bachman

‘It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn’t go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.’ – Rohit Shetty

‘Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.’ – Karen DeCrow

”Weedflower’ was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn’t really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience.’ – Cynthia Kadohata

‘At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.’ – Garry Disher

‘I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for ‘Beardance’ and the other for ‘Far North.’ The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!’ – Will Hobbs

‘I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don’t see that solo voice that was the trademark of Adele. It’s no accident that it was her album that ended up selling 27 million copies worldwide.’ – Clive Davis

‘How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn’t going to change my life – that I had to be in control of changing my life.’ – Mo’Nique

‘I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because ‘Cocoon’ was such an ensemble picture. But now I’m certain it wasn’t only for ‘Cocoon.’ It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.’ – Don Ameche

‘I’m so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It’s deeply rewarding and not a little humbling to be honored by such a talented tribe of writers.’ – Sarah MacLean

‘It’s hard because there’s a part of me that wants ‘True Detective’ to win every award we’re nominated for. But I’m a huge fan of ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Game of Thrones.” – Cary Fukunaga

‘I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.’ – Damien Chazelle

‘Before ‘Titanic,’ yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it’s just a bit daft for me.’ – Kate Winslet

‘All the media have their own award presentations.’ – Robert Preston

‘I’ll be honest with you: I’d rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it’s just cool.’ – Rene Russo

‘My dream was to win an Academy Award. But my other dream was to win the Super Bowl, and there’s a chance that might not happen, either.’ – Brian Dunkleman

‘I’m going for Britain’s Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I’m never on the list.’ – Anton du Beke

‘I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?’ – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

‘For myself, I warmly thank the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Chemistry for this mark of their approbation and for an award which confers the highest distinction that a scientist can achieve. I am greatly beholden also to my sponsors and supporters.’ – Robert Robinson

‘When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, ‘I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I’m busy cooking!” – Betty Williams

‘It’s an honor to win the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award.’ – Peter Uihlein

‘With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.’ – Simon Kuznets

‘I can’t describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.’ – Joe Jamail

‘It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It’s nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.’ – Kate Christensen

‘I think what’s going to happen with linear television is it’s going to become more linear. It’s going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports – all those things that, really, you can’t replicate.’ – Ted Sarandos

‘Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you’re working all the time, so you’re learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.’ – Lydia Leonard

‘The team behind ‘The Lego Movie’ approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee ‘Everything is Awesome.’ They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.’ – Nathan Sawaya

‘One of the best things about the award season is that when a British film succeeds at the Oscars and BAFTAs, such as ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ in 2009 and ‘The King’s Speech’ this year, the British public get right behind it with an immense sense of national pride.’ – Gurinder Chadha

‘One indicator of Ernest Lawrence’s influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist – the Nobel Prize.’ – Luis Walter Alvarez

‘The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the ‘Vogue’ Fashion Fund award has to be my biggest achievement to date. Meeting Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, etc., has been an amazing experience that even now gives me goose bumps when I think about it.’ – Simon Spurr

‘The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it’s as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.’ – Bruce Beutler

‘One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man.’ It is his masterwork – it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.’ – Victor LaValle

‘I was thrilled when this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature went to Neal Schusterman’s ‘Challenger Deep.’ This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it’s received.’ – John Corey Whaley

‘There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon.’ – George Vecsey

‘When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from ‘Peter Pan.’ I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script – and I ended up winning an award for it.’ – Levi Miller

‘The IMPAC is a terribly important award.’ – David Bergen

‘I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.’ – Maury Yeston

‘I don’t know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing – and it was a wonderful thing, I don’t regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.’ – John Kessel

‘Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.’ – Barrett Foa

‘I am honored to receive the James Beard award and so incredibly proud of my entire team at Eleven Madison Park.’ – Daniel Humm

‘Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you’re always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it’s kind of awkward.’ – Ann Leckie

‘The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I’m doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.’ – Chris Raschka

‘On behalf of the entire Lionsgate team, it is a tremendous honor and deeply humbling to join the elite group of recipients previously honored with the Milestone Award.’ – Jon Feltheimer

‘If you’re not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?’ – Laura Amy Schlitz

‘Growing up in Waterloo, the Governor General’s Award wasn’t something I even thought to wish for.’ – Alexi Zentner

‘To map the Governor General’s Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.’ – Alexi Zentner

‘With an award like the Asian Film Awards, we’ve sent a message saying that ‘Asian Cinema is here, it matters, and more importantly, we are all part of the same fraternity!’ The AFA is truly, then, an award for Asia, by Asia.’ – Michelle Yeoh

‘I am certainly humbled to receive the American Voice Award and join the ranks of so many people that I admire.’ – Marcia Fudge

‘My next project is ‘Venus Vs,’ which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don’t realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember coming back from the location to the Oriental Hotel and hearing someone yelling across the reception area, ‘You’ve won the Tony!’ It was wonderful and strange to be halfway around the world.’ – Roger Rees

‘I don’t attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for ‘Virginia Woolf’ in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, ‘I hope we can use our art for peace and love.” – Haskell Wexler

‘The best thing that winning those Academy Awards things are – the best thing of it is that when I say some of my ideas, somebody’s going to listen to it, and they’ll preface what I say, ‘Academy Award winner da-da-da-da-da.” – Haskell Wexler

‘When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive the prize and one of only 11 female winners in its history. Her award was the end of a very long journey from a remote farm in Rhodesia to a banquet at Stockholm’s Stadshus, the grand city hall in Stockholm.’ – Justin Cartwright

‘I won the John Mackey Award, so I did something right.’ – Austin Seferian-Jenkins

‘I never watched any award show.’ – Lukas Forchhammer

‘Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don’t have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.’ – Kate Hudson

‘The stigma with country is it’s not cool. That’s wrong. Country is very cool. I look at award shows, I look at how country is represented. Country is represented with an asterisk. We have to perform collaborations. We have to perform a tribute. We can’t perform by ourselves.’ – Eric Church

‘The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.’ – Paul Samuelson

‘I won every award you could win in television. I got paid well. And people loved ’30 Rock’. And I loved ’30 Rock’. I mean, sometimes you do a show that’s a hit show, and you hate it.’ – Alec Baldwin

”Silicon Valley’ is a great show. It might be the best comedy on television. And if the Academy feels I have stood out to the point of deserving an award, I won’t pawn it.’ – T. J. Miller

‘It’s like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the ‘New Yorker’ last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.’ – Frank McCourt

‘I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman’s neurotic, struggling actress girlfriend, in ‘Tootsie.’ Under Sydney Pollack’s direction, ‘Tootsie’ had been a runaway hit starring Dustin as an unemployed actor who pretends to be a woman in order to land a role in a soap opera.’ – Teri Garr

‘So about this Fierce and Fearless award, honestly, I am often afraid. I was terrified when I lost my voice. But I’ve come to understand and listen to the fear. I walk towards it. I lean into it to find the information and things that it has to teach me – unless it says run, and then I run.’ – Tracee Ellis Ross

‘I always see my music for its rewards rather than its awards. But I always thought if there was one award I’d want to win, it would be the Mercury.’ – Benjamin Clementine

‘I love MTV, and I love the VMAs. There’s no award show like it. It really is the coolest award show, hands down.’ – Jeremy Scott

‘My sixth book, ‘A Breath of Snow and Ashes,’ was nominated for a number of book awards, one of which was The Quill Award, and they had it in New York at the Natural History Museum.’ – Diana Gabaldon

‘When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the ‘green revolution,’ they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace.’ – Norman Borlaug

‘There are three things on my piano – my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame statue.’ – Michelle Phillips

‘I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.’ – Wadada Leo Smith

‘I feel very, very upset that, when it came time for me to get an Academy Award, that I didn’t especially thank Clint Eastwood.’ – Michael Cimino

‘The first award I ever won was for Best New Artist from the ACMs, so they always will hold a special place in my heart.’ – Trisha Yearwood

‘My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling.’ – Mary Steenburgen

‘I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.’ – Karan Singh Grover

‘The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.’ – A. Philip Randolph

‘You don’t get time to meet your peers such as Dharmendra and Hema Malini very often. Award functions or other events are the only places you meet them, unless there is an emergency. Then we all come together.’ – Amitabh Bachchan

‘I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.’ – Katherine Dunn

‘Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.’ – Bebe Rexha

‘The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a ‘Man of the Year’ award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza, from the USO.’ – Jack Keane

‘I don’t feel I have to acknowledge how I’m doing by an award.’ – Jimmy Smits

‘I won my first singing award with ‘Auliya.” – Armaan Malik

‘I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do.’ – Wadada Leo Smith

‘The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it’s momentary if you win an award.’ – Yami Gautam

‘In the ’80s, before I was born, my dad played in the old Soviet Top League in our home country of Armenia. He was a small but very quick striker. ‘Soviet Soldier’ magazine actually honoured him with its ‘Knight of Attack’ award in 1984.’ – Henrikh Mkhitaryan

‘In high school and college, I’d set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a ‘Star Wars’ movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects.’ – John Knoll

‘I don’t know about you, but for me, if I got to present any kind of award, I’m shaking in my pants.’ – Michael Pena

‘Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.’ – Edgar Wright

‘It’s bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.’ – Nazanin Boniadi

‘When I got to New York, all I wanted to do – or so I thought – was win a Tony award or, at least, be nominated.’ – Tituss Burgess

‘The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there’s a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers – the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.’ – Fat Joe

‘My first tweet was at the CMT Awards when I won an award and typed, ‘Thank you.’ Then I was hooked because the followers started multiplying. It’s a great tool.’ – Brad Paisley

‘There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it’s amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life’s just not like that.’ – Taron Egerton

‘People always say ‘humbling,’ but I actually think it’s quite inflating being nominated for an award. It’s wonderful; it’s a great feeling.’ – Taron Egerton

‘That’s the thing about awards – it’s for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.’ – Sia

‘My Number 1 Award is going to go on my mantelpiece, and I’ll probably kiss it for two weeks solid every time I pass it!’ – James Arthur

‘I am happy. I have won many awards, but it is the national award that I was waiting for. This means everything to me.’ – Remo D’Souza

‘If you have won a national award, it means you have done something great.’ – Remo D’Souza

‘I turned down ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brody’ with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award.’ – Julie Andrews

‘After I did ‘Broadcast News’ and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was ‘Roe vs. Wade’ at NBC.’ – Holly Hunter

‘I haven’t experienced college life. It’s the phase that my character in ‘Raanjhana’ is set in. But it isn’t that bad, either. I have nearly 30 films behind me and a National Award to boot.’ – Dhanush

‘It’s interesting too, that the coach of that Georgia Tech team who led his valiant warriors to those 222 points was none other than John Heisman. Yes, he whom the Heisman trophy is named for, an award that honors that college player who best exemplifies excellence and integrity.’ – Frank Deford

‘I’d probably say the championships mean more to me, but the gold medal makes you a bit different. It’s a special award.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I’d be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.’ – Billy Eichner

‘Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.’ – Billy Eichner

‘Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me.’ – Billy Eichner

‘I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring – and my parents supported it, for better or worse.’ – Billy Eichner

‘It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, ‘Weird!” – Ethan Coen

‘I was introduced to 7 Charming Sisters at an Emmy Award Show event. When they approached me to become a brand ambassador, I was over the moon about working with the brand. What impressed me even more as a disability advocate is the fact that the company is dedicated to employing people with disabilities.’ – Jamie Brewer

‘Award ceremonies are strange because you’re sitting next to someone you’ve never met; you’re celebrating with a total stranger.’ – Aneurin Barnard

‘You can wish to have an Oscar someday or some other award, but Life Achievement? You don’t see yourself that way.’ – Rita Moreno

‘The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, ‘The Emperor’s Children’ would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing.’ – Claire Messud

‘I was there in 2009 for the Matthew Shepard Foundation dinner. I was honored with an award – Making A Difference Award. It was a wonderful night.’ – Del Shores

‘Most actresses save their best gown of the award season for the Academy, so it truly is a red carpet full of the fashion’s creme de la creme.’ – Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

‘I’m always caught up in the thrill of award season: The golden statues, the glamorous stars, and the fabulous gowns.’ – Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

‘These are some of my awards – an Ivor Novello, a Variety Club Silver Heart, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. I also have a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and a street named after me in Brooklyn where I used to live.’ – Neil Sedaka

‘To be called a Cy Young award winner is something I could have never imagined ever happening to me. I’m just always amazed at the blessings that came my way over the years.’ – Jake Peavy

‘I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if I can do it, then any kid can do it.’ – Roger Ross Williams

‘I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function.’ – Karishma Tanna

‘If we win the Champions League, everyone is a better, more recognised player, but if you win an individual award and nothing with your team, it means nothing.’ – Fernando Torres

‘The American Music Awards mean more to us; that’s a people’s award, and we’re a people’s band. The Grammys are the critics.’ – David Bryan

‘Actually, nobody has ever given me an award, and also, it’s not really important in my life. I go to these award shows for meeting my friends.’ – R. Madhavan

‘If I am ever forced to choose between my identity as a Tamilian and an award from the central government, I will choose the former.’ – Vijay Sethupathi

‘I don’t typically pay attention to most things in life, let alone award season. Not because I think it’s silly. I just don’t typically get caught up in it.’ – Thomas Middleditch

‘I am happy to lose spots on the IPL Fairplay award list, but I cannot see my team slipping on the points table.’ – Gautam Gambhir

‘In 2013, after a challenging two years of long-term IV antibiotics and six weeks at a clinic in florida, I received the ‘Star Light’ award from the Lyme Research Alliance for my advocacy and strength to light the way of Lyme disease awareness.’ – Yolanda Hadid

‘I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for ‘3rd Rock on the Sun,’ I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well.’ – John Lithgow

‘Donald Trump was in a tuxedo, standing next to his award: a statue of a palm tree, as tall as a toddler. It was 2010, and Trump was being honored by a charity – the Palm Beach Police Foundation – for his ‘selfless support’ of its cause. His support did not include any of his own money.’ – David Fahrenthold

‘At one point, I was greenlighting films and scripts that shouldn’t have been made based on the fact that they had that stamp of approval of an Academy Award winner. And the good news is I got to learn the real process of filmmaking – directing, storyboarding, writing.’ – Cuba Gooding, Jr.

‘If I was a research scientist, I’d want people to say, ‘You know what, he’s a great research scientist, that Ricky Gervais. He’s really good, really good.’ You know, I’d go to award ceremonies for research scientists and go, ‘Yeah, I really worked hard, yeah.’ It’s brilliant.’ – Ricky Gervais

‘Some of my contemporaries don’t want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.’ – Du Yun

‘I’m proud of doing ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night,’ for which I won an ACE award.’ – Ruby Dee

‘I don’t believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, ‘West Side Story.” – George Chakiris

‘If I was offered the choice of an award for best actor or best supporting actor, I would go for supporting actor.’ – Liam Cunningham

‘The narrative of, ‘You won an award, so you’re going to skyrocket’ – it’s very emotive language but not necessarily true. I’ve definitely got auditions I wouldn’t have got before, but it’s not like jobs get rained down on you.’ – Georgina Campbell

‘My job is not to get an award. My job is to illuminate people about something that they should know.’ – Renee Elise Goldsberry

‘I remember watching Quentin Tarantino accept an Academy Award for screenwriting for ‘Pulp Fiction.’ If I’d known then that 15 years later one of his movies would again be nominated for an Oscar and I’d be in it – that would be pretty crazy.’ – Paul Rust

‘I think the Oscar is the big money award; that means you’ve made it in a money sense. The Tony has always represented – to me, and most actors that I’ve talked to – an artistic award. It means you’re an artist and not just a popular performer.’ – Brian Stokes Mitchell

‘After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I’d get a lot of offers – and they didn’t come.’ – Louis Gossett, Jr.

‘It’s amazing to be nominated for the Brits’ Critics’ Choice Award 2016. It’s such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it’s a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K.’ – Jack Garratt

”Strong Island’ has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it’s just an incredible recognition to be honored. And to be the first trans director – and, I believe, the first African-American trans director – to be nominated for an Academy Award is incredibly, incredibly special to me.’ – Yance Ford

‘I realized that I wanted a Rhodes Scholarship, not because I wanted to go to graduate school but because I wanted to win a famous award. Quitting forced me to realize I was on the wrong track and that I had lost touch with who I was and what I cared about.’ – Rachel Simmons

‘The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the ‘St. Louis Post’ and the ‘St. Louis Dispatch’ to make the – wait for it – ‘St. Louis Post-Dispatch.” – Nell Scovell

‘There’s a difference between world-class fighters and club fighters. It’s similar to the distinction between a Grammy Award nominee and a guy who sings in Holiday Inn cocktail lounges.’ – Thomas Hauser

‘Every quarter, we give an award for a breakthrough idea even if it doesn’t make it to market.’ – Dinesh Paliwal

‘To me, the Peabody was as big if not bigger than any award, but I do understand an Emmy Award-winning show has a different buzz when it comes to start talking about renewals and things like that. There’s a professional something to it that matters.’ – Kenya Barris

‘I remember getting notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my mother, and I was so obnoxious about it, but I said to her, ‘Momma, I’m going to enjoy every moment of this because tomorrow, something bad is going to happen.” – Lindsay Mendez

‘With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That’s what it feels like.’ – Kevin Parker

‘I was on MTV’s ‘Real World’ at the time when ‘Queer Eye’ came out. I remember, the first time I won an award, I got the award, and they were like, ‘It’s a tie! With ‘Queer Eye!” I never thought that I would one day follow in their footsteps.’ – Karamo Brown

‘What’s hurtful is when you have portrayals like, you know, when you have someone like Jared Leto who accepts an award for ‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ after playing a trans woman, standing in a full beard and looking fully cis male: it is communicating to our audiences that underneath all of that, it’s still a man under that.’ – Angelica Ross

‘I went from playing for nobody and having awkward experiences at award shows to now being all over the place playing sold-out shows for people who know all of the words.’ – Lauv

‘I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!’ – James Lapine

‘You don’t do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn’t win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.’ – Glenda Jackson

‘I’m in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jimmy Page gave me the MOJO Maverick award. I got an Ivor Novella Award for my very first song.’ – Donovan

‘I was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award 19 times before I won. The first nine years, I heard someone else’s name called; after that – I think it was a protective thing – I didn’t hear whose name was called, but nobody was making eye contact with me, so I knew that it wasn’t mine.’ – Susan Lucci

‘It’s true that John Bolton would not win the most popular ambassador award at the U.N., but being popular shouldn’t be the priority.’ – Richard Grenell

‘I was nominated for a live-action short-film Academy Award in 2003.’ – Lexi Alexander

‘Maybe the biggest award show of the largest entertainment importer in the world needs an economic incentive to embrace diversity. Indeed, maybe we should boycott the show and pressure advertisers to do the same. Or maybe the Academy should learn the lesson of history and change because it’s the right thing to do.’ – Lexi Alexander

‘Now I can always be called ‘Emmy winner Regina King.’ I think that in this business, it must mean something. Every time someone has won an award, and they’re announcing them or speaking about them, that prefaces their name.’ – Regina King

‘My stats don’t even need to be said, but I’ll say them anyway. I’m a 14-time champion. I’m a two-time Slammy award winner. I’ve done movies. I host my own show. How much more do you want in an athlete, in a star, than The Miz?’ – The Miz

‘You have to give the Ballon d’Or to the best player in the world at that time. Any differences between what the players are like as individuals should not affect who is chosen for a personal award.’ – Sergio Ramos

‘It seems like I’m one of those people that has the personality where, if I win an award, I wake up the next day, and I’m like ‘Oh, but I didn’t win this award though, or this didn’t happen.” – Machine Gun Kelly

‘It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.’ – Terence Tao

‘They called me Little Milla. He was one of the best in the world, not just in Africa. A lot of us think he did not win the best player in the world award just because he was African. It was an honour to have the name – he was an inspiration.’ – Samuel Eto’o

‘I have won the hearts of many. So that matters more than any award. The love of my ‘Nehearts’ – my fans, is more than inspiring and encouraging.’ – Neha Kakkar

‘You watch award shows, and not only are you not nominated, but you’re not a presenter and haven’t been invited to any of the parties.’ – Justine Bateman

‘I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn’t the best kiss as far as kisses go, but I hold the fact that I kissed John Updike, that he kissed me, very close to my heart.’ – Ann Patchett

‘I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That’s the only place I can control where I won’t get upset.’ – Skepta

‘We preserve the legacy of my father through an education approach. We award scholarships. We do classes at schools about my father’s philosophy and life.’ – Shannon Lee

‘To get an award for something you are having a ball doing is a real buzz.’ – Sophie Okonedo

‘I was 18 when I was presented with the Arjuna Award. To say it feels really good would be an understatement. But I don’t know how else to convey the feeling. I am grateful for having received this prestigious award at such a young age.’ – P. V. Sindhu

‘I wish there was an autotune for acting. That would make everyone win the best acting award immediately.’ – Shruti Haasan

‘The consolidated appreciation that ‘Eega’ is the pride of the Telugu film industry is the biggest award I can get.’ – S. S. Rajamouli

‘Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about it and having people mention it to him.’ – Jacques Plante

‘You’ll never see me at award ceremonies.’ – Marco Pierre White

‘Rational anxiety is when you’re aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I’m going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I’m leaving CVS, and there’s a car behind me, and I’m wondering if he’s following me home.’ – Charlamagne tha God

‘I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri.’ – Arunachalam Muruganantham

‘It’s quite strange looking down the list of players who’ve won the young player award in the past and then thinking I’m in there too now. There’s some great names like Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy – and I can’t miss out Chris Gunter – and it’s a big boost to be included.’ – Aaron Ramsey

‘I never planned my movies. I never selected subjects to win the National Award. I did films that made the masses happy.’ – Govinda

‘It’s funny going to America because you’re starting again. You’ve just won a Brit Award, but nobody will care. You have to prove yourself, but it’s good to do that stuff. You might be big in Britain, but you still have to work at it everywhere else.’ – Tom Walker

‘Winning the Brit award – I really didn’t expect to win, and I was just there for the party, but then I actually won it! I’ll never forget that moment and the weeks leading up to it.’ – Tom Walker

‘I don’t choose scripts with the intent to get an award.’ – Kirti Kulhari

‘The UPA awarded Brijesh Mishra with the second highest award of the country after Bharat Ratna. I am suggesting that he was a Congress bug, a cat’s paw. He was Congress’ Trojan Horse. Even as he was the NSA, he worked for the Congress party.’ – Subramanian Swamy

‘My favorite part of any award show is meeting all the fans, and the KCA’s are the one event I look forward to all year.’ – Peyton List

‘An award, to me, means a bonus. It’s not that an actor works for an award. I don’t work for an award. But, when you get an award, it is encouraging and inspiring and reminds you that you need to do well.’ – Radhika Pandit

‘There are many great players to have won the adidas Golden Ball Award, and it is a great privilege to receive this award and be part of this select group of players.’ – Diego Forlan

‘My last film as director, the National Award winning ‘Zakhm,’ barely managed to break even. So why should I listen to so-called sensibilities of a handful of critics?’ – Mahesh Bhatt

‘The sixth man, the position, I don’t have a problem with, but the award – it’s not that it’s not important, but being singled out, it’s like affirmative action or something like that to me. So, it’s like, whatever.’ – Andre Iguodala

‘The Heisman – it would be a privilege and an honor to receive that award, but at the end of the day, I want to be the best I can be at my position and for my team.’ – Deshaun Watson

‘The Miss Eco-Beauty title is a very qualitative and important award!’ – Sobhita Dhulipala

‘People are dying to get a National Award… it’s a national reputation.’ – Hema Malini

‘I got style icon awards; I was given the ‘HT’ Most Stylish award. That happened, like, on the second day I was out of the ‘Bigg Boss’ house.’ – Hina Khan

‘It’s impossible to describe Messi. I like him so much, and I always say I feel so sad because he never won the World Cup with Argentina. It is an award he deserves because a world-class player like him must be a world champion.’ – Rivaldo

‘I have an awards cabinet in my studio where I keep my eight Oscars, my 11 Grammys, my seven Golden Globes, and my Tony Award.’ – Alan Menken

‘Bollywood is a great place. You can expect support for award ceremonies, weddings, and funerals.’ – Pooja Bhatt

‘Winning is a different thing, but even being nominated for an award like Filmfare is an honour.’ – Jackie Shroff

‘I never thought I would get a National Award. For me, it was huge, and I got complacent.’ – Dimple Kapadia

‘I plan with the BBC African Player of the Year award to become an agent of hope and positive change in the lives of the millions of African youths who have lost hope and are deprived.’ – Emmanuel Adebayor

‘I’m so honored that I got the best guitarist award for the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards.’ – John 5

‘I had never thought that so many people would know me, will talk about me, and most of all, I will be given a National Award.’ – Pankaj Tripathi

‘The National Award is a matter of pride for me, and it has also increased my responsibilities towards the country.’ – Pankaj Tripathi

‘It feels amazing to know that the whole country thought my role in ‘Newton’ was one of my best, and to win the Special Mention Award at the highest film award in India is just exhilarating.’ – Pankaj Tripathi

‘Till 2010, there was one national award for Best Music Direction. I have received it thrice – for ‘Sagara Sangamam,’ ‘Sindhu Bhairavi,’ and ‘Rudraveena.” – Ilaiyaraaja

‘The song ‘Bolo Naa’ from the film ‘Chittagong,’ which got me the National Award, wasn’t even promoted in India, whereas the film won laurels all over the world.’ – Shankar Mahadevan

‘I got the Pawnbroker of the Year award. They said I did more for the pawn business in one year than their media team, in 30 years, has been able to do.’ – Rick Harrison

‘I work for the director, and if audience are happy, I have gotten my award. After that, I have to move on.’ – Manoj Bajpayee

‘I would be surprised though if I don’t get unbelievable critical acclaim for ‘Dirty Picture’ and a national award for my actress, Vidya Balan. The movie has one of the most well-written scripts I have come across, and a lot of youngsters in my office have looked at it with great admiration.’ – Ekta Kapoor

‘It’s overwhelming and humbling to be the recipient of a National Award, and I only hope to find scripts now that will solidify that honor.’ – Raveena Tandon

”Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi’ has a very nice subject which I think could be remade into a Hindi film. It was my first film in Telugu for which I got Filmfare Award for the best actress.’ – Asin

‘My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn’t be the thing that defines you in the first place.’ – Craig David

‘I don’t like award ceremonies.’ – King Diamond

‘I’ve always been a mediocre student, so I never won an award in school. I’m not very athletic, so I’ve never won a sports award. So, I’m a mediocre person.’ – Nicole Byer

‘Well, I am a Malayali and I know the kind of expectations my fans have about my films. That, for me, is the biggest award. So I try and pick roles that I hope viewers will like. Malayalis want actors to be subtle in their acting and they enjoy realism.’ – Amala Paul

‘If, say, a striker knows that scoring 30 goals in a season will lead to them winning a prestigious award then they will try that little bit harder because, regardless of what players may say, individual recognition on the world stage is important.’ – Eniola Aluko

‘The Profile in Courage Award recognizes elected officials who choose to do what is right, not what is easy, so that we might learn from their example. Each time we give the award, we bear witness to the past for the sake of the future.’ – Jack Schlossberg

‘It’s an amazing achievement to win a National Business Award and it recognises all of the hard work and determination of the team of people that have made Crafter’s Companion the success that it is today.’ – Sara Davies

‘I don’t like the energy at award shows. It’s rehearsed and everybody is just focused on themselves and nobody wants to genuinely applaud for anyone else. People aren’t even listening if someone is giving a speech on stage.’ – Vaani Kapoor

‘The Heisman Trophy is such a special award.’ – Marcus Mariota

‘While I was in college, I was intrigued by modelling and also won the best model award in my college.’ – Saqib Saleem

‘While we are clear that it is right that those who work hard, generate wealth and create jobs for our country are rewarded, where failure is rewarded or people award themselves huge pay rises that bear no relation to performance or what their companies can bear, trust is severely undermined.’ – Chuka Umunna

‘Wired gave ‘Duke Nukem Forever’ the first Vaporware Award, and then the next year it won No. 1 vaporware again, and then again and again until Wired decided, you know what? ‘Duke Nukem’ is just going to get the lifetime achievement award for vaporware.’ – Randy Pitchford

‘I am really happy that my daughter Janhvi has been honoured with the ‘Arets Stjerneskudd’ award as the rising talent of the year by Royal Norwegian Consulate General.’ – Boney Kapoor

‘It’d be really neat if I wasn’t a Darwin Award winner.’ – Simone Giertz

‘You see, for the most part it was a normal upbringing. Sure, there was the Nobel Peace award; sure, there were people coming to our house who I knew were famous. But we grew up in a very modest part of the community. Our last home was in what had been one of the worst ghettos in Atlanta.’ – Yolanda King

‘Why do people need awards? Don’t you know your value and your worth? I don’t need anybody’s award or acceptance.’ – Janet Hubert

‘If I needed money, I wouldn’t sell $5 t-shirts. I’d sell a Grammy or an MTV award.’ – Mathew Knowles

‘When I turn on an award show, I don’t want to be lectured about politics, climate change or the NRA or a left-wing issue or a right-wing issue.’ – Jedediah Bila

‘Donald Trump should be focused on how to fix the country, not an award show.’ – Jedediah Bila

‘I won an award when I was 15 and my mum and dad were very proud and so was I but for me, individual things like that aren’t as significant as I have been part of so much and there were weeks and months of hard work building up to those pinnacle moments and they can be full of moments of pride.’ – Kelvin Fletcher

‘My dreams of taking the West End by storm as a dancer flickered but then faded; my father’s ambition to see me in a steady office job was tried and abandoned. But I had won a national speaking award, had stood for election to the local council, had begun to travel and took a job working for the Labour Party.’ – Betty Boothroyd

‘I was the first Indian music composer to win the China Gold Award for ‘Jimmy Jimmy’ from ‘Disco Dancer.’ Adam Sandler repeated the song in his film ‘Zohan.’ ‘Disco Dancer’ is historical, as are ‘Sharaabi’ and ‘Namak Halal.” – Bappi Lahiri

‘I’m trying to win the Super Bowl. That’s a team award and that’s what I want.’ – Lamar Jackson

‘The Medal of Valor is this nation’s highest and most prestigious award for public safety officers.’ – William Barr

‘Established in 2001, the Medal of Valor is our nation’s highest public safety award. Officers across the nation are nominated by their peers, but only a handful are selected to receive this honor. Traditionally, this process occurs only once a year.’ – William Barr

‘When you win the Cy Young, it’s like, well, you’re a baseball player, that’s what you’re supposed to do. When you win the Clemente Award, you don’t do it to get recognized for your work, but it means so much more than baseball.’ – Clayton Kershaw

‘I won an award for my debut film. However, my career went up and down after that but I kept getting work. I did whatever excited me and did not think which role or film will change my career.’ – Arbaaz Khan

‘Even being too good at teaching is risky at research universities; the joke is that a ‘teacher of the year’ award is the kiss of death for non-tenured professors.’ – Max Boot

‘Nothing upset me more than the award of Companion of Honour to Eric Hobsbawm in reward for a lifetime of unswerving loyalty to the Soviet Union.’ – Roger Scruton

‘I’ve had my differences with Massive Attack, but you can’t deny what they’ve done. They’ve changed the face of music. They should make up an award for them even if there ain’t one.’ – Tricky

‘My manager told me that a kid who was in a coma woke up after ten days when they played him one of my songs. That now means more to me than winning any award.’ – Tricky

‘The Heisman is often a career award. Chris Weinke, Michael Vick, Eric Crouch and Drew Brees have all had a more than one great year.’ – Lee Corso

‘I started at the top. My first job was the cover of ‘Italian Vogue,’ which is the equivalent essentially of winning an Academy Award. So, there was nowhere else to go from there.’ – Lydia Hearst

‘I was never in music to make it to award shows.’ – Ben Howard

‘Quality cinema is not changing anything, everything is the same. The artistes and other people involved in these films get some recognition at international film festivals and award shows only.’ – Asrani

‘I am really grateful to receive an award at Global Film Tourism Conclave 2019.’ – Satish Kaushik

‘I have a nice script for Salman Khan which is much bigger than ‘Tere Naam.’ I have bought the rights of Tamil film ‘Pithamagan,’ which featured national award winning actor Vikram who had also done Tamil version of ‘Tere Naam.” – Satish Kaushik

‘But I don’t pretend I earned a Lifetime Achievement Award.’ – Derek Trucks

‘I always felt that I was never acknowledged for a lot of things – award shows, all of that.’ – Ginuwine

‘I have been nominated five times for the Filmfare Award but for some unknown reasons I failed to win the award even once.’ – Mukesh Tiwari

‘I am not after any award. Love and affection of the audience is the biggest award for me.’ – Mukesh Tiwari

‘There’s a strong wave of songs by women. Even if the songs are collabs, women have the intro and the chorus, which is what people can sing. We’re getting the credibility, the spaces in the award shows, and people want to hear our point of view.’ – Karol G

‘I love to perform at various award functions and one day I would like to open a dance academy.’ – Sanjeeda Sheikh

‘The Heisman Trophy equivalent in collegiate wrestling is named the Dan Hodge Award, which illustrates just how Dan is perceived within that culture.’ – Jim Ross

‘The United Nations Award for India’s efforts in the field of environment conservation has made every Indian proud.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘I won the national award for the best music composer and also had the fortune of scoring music for songs penned by M. Karunanidhi for the movie ‘Pasakiligal.” – Vidyasagar

‘Usually, people think that award movies are hard to break.’ – Salim Kumar

‘An award should be earned based on an actor’s ability and not be just given as a present.’ – Salim Kumar

‘Winning a State film award for ‘Nandanam’ had me sit up and realise that cinema was my bread and butter and that I had to be sincere to my work.’ – Navya Nair

‘I got a Best Actress award from the Kerala government when I was 24, and I got another one when I was 42. I was more thrilled when I got it for the second time.’ – Suhasini Maniratnam

‘Taking off my shirt has become a part of my life, whether it is at award ceremonies or reality shows. As long as people enjoy it, why not?’ – Sonu Sood

‘I think as much as people moan at things like award ceremonies, it gives people role models. It provides real positive reinforcement that you can be who you are and still massively achieve.’ – Jack Monroe

‘After winning the World Cup and the European Footballer of the Year award too, I do not think I can ask for anything else.’ – Fabio Cannavaro

‘Receiving a reputable pro-Israel award isn’t a bad idea for a Democrat or a Republican in a New York City congressional district.’ – Michael Caputo

‘I believe that when Fifa hands out an award, it should not be a marketing prize that solely honours the protagonists of a media-crazy sport.’ – Philipp Lahm

‘Award shows come with a price tag. You have to lobby and I don’t have the acumen for such stuff. Maybe that’s the reason I hardly have any award.’ – Ranvir Shorey

‘My general feeling about award shows that I’ve been to in the past was always that when you win, it’s a great time. What a joy. You’re celebrating there. And when you lose, the whole thing feels very stupid and why does anyone care about any of this. This is boring. I want to go home.’ – Raphael Bob-Waksberg

‘Why do we want to win an award? Yes, my grandmother would be very proud, but I think it’s also so people can hear, ‘Oh, this show won an award. I guess it’s good. I should watch it now.” – Raphael Bob-Waksberg

‘I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.’ – Maria Ressa

‘Award season is such an exciting time of the year and I enjoy seeing who is nominated, who wins and – like most women – the fashions.’ – Camille Grammer

‘Though I was nominated for awards for films like ‘Tezaab’ and ‘Apna Sapna Money Money’ but I never won an award. Now I am not even nominated for any awards but still I attend the award functions as I love being there despite figuring prominently in a lot of leg pulling that goes around in the award ceremonies.’ – Chunky Pandey

‘I have never won a single award – National or Filmfare – and I just hope they don’t give me a Lifetime Achievement Award because I won’t accept it.’ – Chunky Pandey

‘The tag of a ‘National Award winner’ earned me a lot of respect from a lot of people. I like that in a way.’ – Priyamani

‘We want box office success, critical acclaim, awards and everything else. But I think when the audience likes a film, that appreciation is far more fulfilling, far more satisfying than any award.’ – Kiran Rao

‘It’s not a big deal to send a film to the festivals, but yes, winning an award is huge. When you send a film at festivals, people talk about you and your work, and one gets great exposure.’ – Karan Wahi

‘You sort of feel when you are given an award, you feel like, well then you have got to do something to deserve having been given the award. It worked differently with me cause I didn’t feel that I had done enough.’ – Judith Durham

‘Out of so many international stars from U.S., France, Russia and Italy, I was the one who bagged the first Frownie Award. It is a humbling feeling.’ – Kashmira Shah

‘Robert Pattinson is an incredibly gifted actor. Every role that Pattinson plays is a contender for an acting award.’ – Greig Fraser

‘If I know someone who has won an award or received a promotion I tend to gift them a bottle of Black Dog to celebrate their achievements.’ – Shibani Dandekar

‘An award or an honour from the government is always welcomed any time.’ – Dutee Chand

‘There are musicians who wait all their lives for this award while for me it came with my first album. People have started acknowledging my work because of the Grammy.’ – Chamillionaire

‘Award functions are a big sham. It’s a money-making television programme.’ – Kay Kay Menon

‘I find award functions laughable. To me, it is just like an extension of a college annual day function.’ – Kay Kay Menon

‘Shwetha Menon is my good friend and I have nothing against her. But, the Kerala State Award for the Best Actress has been given to her for Paleri Manickam’ in which somebody else dubbed for her. I received only the second best actress award for my performance in Pazhassi Raja,’ where I have dubbed in my own voice.’ – Padmapriya Janakiraman

‘Saying Kaepernick is a distraction is based largely on opinion. You could say his decision to kneel for the national anthem was detrimental to the team. If that is so, I would hope you’d note that Kaepernick’s teammates gave him the Len Eshmont Award at the end of the season.’ – Joy Taylor

‘When you give someone an award and you tell them that they are the best female chef in the world, you alienate them from their peers.’ – Dominique Crenn

‘When I recieved the Padmabhushan it was a happy moment no doubt, but it was not something I sought desperately to win. I never worked towards the award.’ – K. J. Yesudas

‘In college I received the Best Actor award for four consecutive years under Calicut University.’ – Joy Mathew

‘I got the Margaret Sanger award. I was kissed by President Obama.’ – Ruth Westheimer

‘On one occasion I saw a banner where my name read ‘Sarvasri Bharat Balachandra Menon.’ I was amused and decided to find out the reason for this coinage. One of the organizers confessed rather sheepishly that they were sure about me getting the Bharat award but were doubtful if I was a Padma Shri awardee.’ – Balachandra Menon

‘It was nice to receive the ICC woman’s cricketer of the year award because when Jhulan Goswami won the award I was very young.’ – Smriti Mandhana

‘There are some people who feel that they deserve a particular award or recognition, but I don’t fall in that category.’ – Mithali Raj

‘Berlin was the first, the very first to give me an award. I am eternally grateful to them. It sits on my desk – the Silver Bear. All the others are stored away. It’s the only one I look at. It watches me while I work.’ – Alexandre Desplat

‘I want to become a movie director and win an Academy Award. That’s what I’m trying to do.’ – Ryan Garcia

‘In 1975 I had the award for the top male artist, the award for top single, the award for top album.’ – Demis Roussos

‘After winning the National Award for Perariyathavar, I started getting a lot of good roles such as the one in ‘Action Hero Biju.” – Suraj Venjaramood

‘My father’s failures inspired me the most and still drive me. He worked for 10 years, but wasn’t invited to award functions, forget being nominated. So winning even one trophy is a high for our family.’ – Amaal Mallik

‘If you’re in Bollywood and working in any category, and you receive a Filmfare Award for it, it’s a huge thing for any creative person.’ – Ankit Tiwari

‘I know one thing; I’ll never win an Academy Award.’ – Hal Needham

‘I have never agreed that stuntmen should have an award. Never.’ – Hal Needham

‘If you are teaching your child to be content with a participation award, then you already failed at life.’ – Tommaso Ciampa

‘Surprise! Surprise! An Academy Award nomination and suddenly you’re outed? Did I mind? Oh, very, very much.’ – Nigel Hawthorne

‘As a child, I used to watch award functions, and would dream of going up to the stage and getting an award.’ – Pulkit Samrat

‘I got my name, fame, identity and even my National award from Bengali cinema.’ – Rituparna Sengupta

‘I’m honored and humbled to be named the Seasonlong NBA Community Assist Award winner.’ – Bradley Beal

‘Award shows in general are just lame excuses to stroke the egos of millionaires, but the ‘ESPY’s’ are an especially embarrassing example.’ – Sean Evans

‘Gujarat is very close to me. I won my first best actor award for my Gujarati film ‘Kadla Ni Jod.” – Sudha Chandran

‘Look at Jay-Z and Beyonce. Everybody knew Jay and Beyonce were dating. They were sitting around at award shows together like they weren’t together for a while before they came out and said whatever. But your life doesn’t always have to be exposed. There are a lot of people whose personal lives aren’t exposed.’ – Fabolous

‘I have never clamored for an award and have quietly done my work over the years and have been as selective as possible.’ – Deepti Naval

‘I am immensely overwhelmed and thankful to Filmfare and the Times Of India Group for bestowing on my father and my guru the honor he truly deserves. It is prodigious to see the Best Music Album Award being named in memory of the man who pioneered and changed the face of music industry in India.’ – Bhushan Kumar

‘I deserved the National Award for ‘Border,’ but got it for ‘Refugee.” – Anu Malik

‘As a science fiction fan, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award mean a lot to me.’ – Liu Cixin

‘Rock ‘n’ roll, for me, is another award for underachievers. It is nothing but a testament to mediocrity.’ – Frank Sinatra Jr.

‘The only award I ever got was the Popscar.’ – Fred MacMurray

‘Awards have lost their charm. The experience of getting an award has completely dissolved. Awards functions start in December and go on till April and are distributed for anything and everything. Categories like Best Jodi, Best Dressed Celebrity are all redundant.’ – Waheeda Rehman

‘In my time, if your performance was good, you would get the award. It would be a nail-biting experience. We would always be curious whether our name would be announced as the winner.’ – Waheeda Rehman

‘Whether its the National Award, the Padma Bhushan, or several others, nothing will make an artiste happier than the appreciation from the man on the street.’ – Waheeda Rehman

‘I think the PGA Award, when we won that, was so shocking to me. I thought, ‘Absolutely no way.’ I was barely listening when they were announcing it.’ – Matt Duffer

‘I’ve been anchoring corporate events, award shows and cricket tournaments for so many years now that they have become an integral part of my life.’ – Mandira Bedi

‘I am happy with the Padma Shri. What difference does it make to me if I am now given a higher Padma Award?’ – Milkha Singh

‘I have won so many awards including the Padma Shri and Arjuna Award. But all these awards do not carry the kind of prestige they did once.’ – P. T. Usha

‘If the Sixth Man of the Year award comes and I don’t get it, I don’t need the validation because my teammates, coaching staff and a lot of my peers gave me that. They’re telling me, ‘I respect what you do’ and all of that. So, I know that goes a long way as well. But it’s definitely something I want to get accomplished one of these years.’ – Jordan Clarkson

‘I had placenta previa, which had me on bed rest for almost four to five months after the pregnancy. I just started putting on weight and falling into some kind of place in my head because it went from shows, award functions and a glamorous lifestyle to just not being able to handle what pregnancy was doing to me.’ – Sameera Reddy

‘When Miss Williams was crowned Miss America in 1983, she opened the door for Black women around the world to achieve immeasurable dreams the same way Hattie McDaniel did as the first Black woman to ever win an Academy Award.’ – Kenya Moore

‘I never won any award, ever, except for a Houston Press award, but other than that, I never won an award.’ – Paul Wall

‘I released my own album, had a hit single, met people like Annie Lennox and Stevie Nicks. I even won an Ivor Novello award.’ – Naughty Boy

‘I had a great 2014. I even won the MMA award for Breakthrough Fighter of the Year. I had a great year – ’15 was just not my year.’ – Kelvin Gastelum

‘We should create an award here in our country. Hollywood actors should crave to get that.’ – Manoj Kumar

‘I donated the entire amount I got for my national award for ‘Shaheed’ to Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s family.’ – Manoj Kumar

‘Shaheed’ was the first film to win three National Awards. I was the first writer to get the award for story writing.’ – Manoj Kumar

‘Especially with the ACM and CMA, to me, those wins were about acceptance. Winning an award that’s voted on by the country music industry means they accept me as a creator and an artist.’ – Jimmie Allen

‘Honestly, one doesn’t expect any awards, let alone a National Award.’ – Kabir Khan

‘Let’s not forget Oscars is an award ceremony for the U.S. film industry which has one category amongst the various categories called best foreign film.’ – Kabir Khan

‘In my late teens I progressed from karting into single-seater racing, starting with Formula Ford in 1989. I did well and won the Autosport magazine Young Driver of the Year award, which came with a test drive in a McLaren F1 car.’ – David Coulthard

‘I won every award except Filmfare.’ – Harshvardhan Kapoor

‘I’ve grown increasingly bored and frustrated with stars and creatives making their political thoughts and beliefs known at showbiz gatherings and award ceremonies.’ – Ulrika Jonsson

‘For 10, 20 years, whenever anybody, a sound editor, won an award, he always thanked Walter Murch. And I’m sure Bob Altman was influenced by him with all his layers of sound.’ – Jean Marsh

‘I Am’ was a smaller film. It went on to win a National Award, but it didn’t have the kind of reach that it could have.’ – Arjun Mathur

‘Going from winning the Young Player of the Year and Player of the Year while I was with Crusaders to winning the International Personality of the Year award means a lot to me.’ – Stuart Dallas

‘In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to be nominated for and to win an Oscar. It was a step forward, even if most of the country wasn’t ready for it; McDaniel wasn’t even allowed to sit with her castmates, and the award didn’t do much to help her career.’ – Jonathan Capehart

‘I think that quite simply the Ballon D’Or is the most important individual award for a player. I think any footballer would love to be elected.’ – Deco

‘The endgame was a Tony Award; that was what I wanted.’ – Rachel Zegler

‘I was giving the Academy Player of the Year award and I got up on stage and the word I struggled with was ‘consistency.” – Rob Burrow

‘I made a film called ‘Budhiya Singh Won’t Run’ which fetched us National Award in 2015. Then I was quite satisfied with the response that ‘Budhiya Singh’ got.’ – Rimi Sen

‘My striker days are long over. I do miss those days though – being a striker, scoring, celebrating, winning the top goal-scorer award.’ – Aaron Wan-Bissaka

‘It’s special to win the Community Assist award because I’ve always been a person that said if I ever had a chance to give back, I was going to do it.’ – Alex Caruso

‘The CARE Award would give an incentive to brands and businesses to treat their employees well.’ – Dean Phillips