Top Award Quotes

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

The best thing that ever happened to you might be your new job, spouse, awards, etc, but I tell you that being granted to live in order to enjoy these things are wonderful privileges most people can't...

Award Definition

(v. t.) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.

(v. i.) To determine; to make an award.

(v. t.) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.

(v. t.) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.

We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day.

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

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...

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.

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 emb...

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.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

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

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.

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

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...

I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.

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 ever...

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

And these women were not concerned in the least that Kellan had roommates. In fact, I don't think they were even concerned that he had neighbors. Maybe they were operating under the false assumption t...