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I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious. -- Charlize Theron
Not everything's made to win an Academy Award. -- Samuel L. Jackson
I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award -- Laraine Day
I'll never get a Humanitas Award, but I'll have fun. -- John Requa
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of, -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.' -- Todd Phillips
I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award. -- Denzel Washington
Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award. -- Roger Ross Williams
What does the Academy Award mean? I don't think it means much of anything. -- Sally Field
I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American. -- Michael Caine
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure -- Patty Duke
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure. -- Patty Duke
It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award. -- Malcolm McDowell
It's going to be tough (winning the MVP Award). I'm not really considered a media darling. -- Albert Belle
I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. -- Rachael Taylor
The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. -- George C. Scott
White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. -- Paul Mooney
This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's. -- S. J. Perelman
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. -- Bill Murray
Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. -- Bill Murray
Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them. -- Billy Eichner
Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why. -- Jonathan Messinger
I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year. -- James Callis
Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered. -- David Sedaris
I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. -- Aaron Neville
I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool. -- Rene Russo
I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat. -- Kirsten Dunst
My dad sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.' -- Mark Ruffalo
I have to say that my biggest Award is performing in front of my fans. Their love is my award. -- Shreya Ghoshal
I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early! -- Shirley Temple
After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store. -- Dan Fogler
BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles. -- Andy Kindler
The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy Award voter with a tampon in her purse. -- Joan Rivers
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig. -- Aaron Sorkin
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award. -- Sally Kellerman
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence. -- William J. Clinton
I never set out now to get a Grammy, or get an American Music Award, but it still is nice to be recognized. -- Ginuwine
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance. -- Richard Stallman
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
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
You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing 'Crank,' and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done. -- Jason Statham
I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that. -- Trip Lee
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'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
I got my Backstage Bistro Award, I should just retire. You know, that's a good question and I guess it's really really different for everybody. -- Jason Graae
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
At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents. -- Bob Hope
It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective. -- Charles Baxter
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 don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it. -- Quincy Jones
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
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
You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time. -- Julia Phillips
A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'. -- Morgan Freeman
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
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
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
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
Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.' -- Rob Sheffield
It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005. -- Teri Hatcher
Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) -- Patti Smith
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
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
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
If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations. -- Burt Reynolds
I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award. -- Al Pacino
Who doesn't want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn't grow up wanting to be the best? I'm no different. I want to be the best. I've always wanted to be the best. -- R.A. Dickey
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
America's economic strength depends on industry's ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that's why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important. -- Ronald Reagan
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
Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal. -- Rob Lowe
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 Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award. -- Argus Hamilton
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
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
people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin. -- Charles Bukowski
Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973. -- Earl Scruggs
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
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
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award -- Kate DiCamillo
Of all the awards, the Stand-up Comic Audience Award is our favorite. It is a chance to honor the performers who spend much of their careers developing their craft and working in the comedy clubs all over America. -- George Schlatter
I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless. -- Jim Gaffigan
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
New Rule: There's only one thing to say about the Christian Film and Television Commission giving me the Bigoted Bile Award and naming Religulous the number-one Most Unbearable Movie of 2008: Thank you! You hate me, you really hate me! -- Bill Maher
Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children. -- Jerry Pinkney
The Night Journal received two awards that I'm terribly proud of - -the Spur from Western Writers of America, and the Willa Literary Award from Women Writing the West. Both these groups are filled with great writers and good people. -- Elizabeth Crook
Iâ??ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career Iâ??d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination. -- Ansel Elgort
Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force. -- Serzh Sargsyan
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
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
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
Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. -- Harvey Korman
I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for "LA Confidential" which was great. -- Garry Marshall
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
It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script. -- Michael Caine
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
Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, i remember Clifford Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears. -- Anna Held
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
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
Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away. -- Aamir Khan
Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election! -- Ashwin Sanghi
Seeing babies and little children smile or even just be inquisitive about a bottle cap isnpires me. Watching a great performance, particularly live or in the moment. My favorite actor at the moment is the three-time Tony Award-winning Mark Rylance. Makes me work to be better. -- Graham Shiels
We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise. -- George W. Bush
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
I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer. -- Jack White
I've worked for everything I've ever got and it's worked out. Even if I was the Cy Young Award winner I still would not want to feel that sense of entitlement. I would still treat every game like it's my very first game and my very last game. -- R.A. Dickey
This is a tremendous honor (winning the 2002 Roberto Clemente Award), to be considered in the same class as Roberto Clemente. He is a hero and role model for all of us who play the game and strive to be as good a player and person as he was. -- Jim Thome
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
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
"Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He won a British Press Award for his coverage of the 2002 Moscow theater siege in which 130 hostages were killed. He's covered Russian politics and the war in Ukraine. -- Elizabeth Blair Lee
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'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award. -- Laraine Day
Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward. -- Denzel Washington
I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music. -- Jake Bugg
It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special. -- Zinedine Zidane
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. -- Jack Benny

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