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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. -- Jesse Owens
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. -- Jesse Owens
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. -- Bill Murray
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. -- Ernie Banks
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself. -- Natalie Portman
Awards don't really mean much. -- Uta Hagen
Awards are only a publicity gimmick. -- Tony Randall
Academy Awards don't really solve anything. -- Richard LaGravenese
Awards that ignore me are losers. -- Shah Rukh Khan
Awards do not pay the mortgage. -- Kevin Chamberlin
Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. -- Charles Ives
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust -- Jesse Owens
I love awards, especially if I get them. -- Ben Gazzara
I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards. -- Sacheen Littlefeather
Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt. -- Tony Randall
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense. -- Viggo Mortensen
Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape. -- Jane Kaczmarek
Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause. -- Ralph Fiennes
Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every asshole gets one. -- Francois Ozon
Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part. -- Humphrey Bogart
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. -- Dustin Hoffman
I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing. -- Beyonce Knowles
Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover. -- Bob Hope
Awards, they come and go. The main thing is it's all about team. -- Seimone Augustus
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting. -- Shirley Knight
Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards. -- Loretta Lynn
Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards. -- Andrea Martin
At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear. -- Mary Hart
I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one. -- Nicole Kidman
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. -- Jack Benny
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. -- Mark Twain
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it. -- Toni Braxton
My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.' -- Scott Ellis
When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. -- Jack Nicholson
Awards are great, but they're not who you are, and pop culture isn't who you are. -- Mary Grandpre
I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me. -- Paula Cole
The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night. -- William H. Macy
For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me, -- Luise Rainer
For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me. -- Luise Rainer
I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category. -- Tom Hanks
Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please. -- Henny Youngman
I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience. -- Kevin Smith
Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe. -- Brad Goreski
I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter. -- Denzel Washington
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque. -- Denzel Washington
Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits. -- Pink
Remember, do the things that you fucking believe in, alright? This is what it's all about right now. [MTV Awards 2005] -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me. -- Matt Stone
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. -- John Bardeen
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. -- Robert Graves
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are. -- Alan Alda
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.' -- Matt Stone
Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion. -- Penelope Cruz
Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world. -- Mads Mikkelsen
I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus. -- Steven Cojocaru
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 am honoured that my fans worked so hard to help me win Best Act Ever at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards. -- Rick Astley
Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot. -- David Letterman
Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing. -- Amanda Eliasch
At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars - and worst-dressed stars. But it's the worst-dressed that go down in history. -- Brad Goreski
Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment. -- Steve Martin
At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully music. -- Tina Fey
I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm. -- Jon Stewart
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
Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike... -- Rebel Wilson
As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show. -- Johnny Carson
I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have. -- Robert Osborne
You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture. -- Jeff Foxworthy
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards. -- Annie Proulx
I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy. -- Jayne Mansfield
Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies. -- Rachel Bilson
Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies. -- Rachel Bilson
The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor. -- Julianna Margulies
I was living in the U.K. I was back in New Zealand for the New Zealand Music Awards, which is like our annual New Zealand GRAMMYs. -- Ladyhawke
Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967. -- Betty Lynn
The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason." -- Michel Gondry
The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason. -- Michel Gondry
I watched the MTV Video Music Awards every year, telling myself that one day I'm going to be there, and it's like, finally - I made it! -- Christina Aguilera
I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy. -- Luise Rainer
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
I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid. -- Alex Ebert
Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academy Awards, and it would never be as much fun as the show. -- Kevin Connolly
Year after year, the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. -- Alfred Hershey
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
The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white. -- David Letterman
If we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET, and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black. -- Stacey Dash
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
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
MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously. -- Megan Alexander
Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet. -- Justin Timberlake
I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do? -- Queen Latifah
Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet. -- John Ridley
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
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me. -- Jasper Fforde
My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted. -- Chris Rock
Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh really changed everything for me. -- Billy Porter
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
If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. -- Peter Jackson
Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets. -- Sophie Thompson
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
Awards represent achievement, and to an extent they show more about who you are as a person than the personal items you picked out and purchased, because they show desire, ambition, goals, and accomplishment. -- Jarod Kintz
Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go. -- Ben Kingsley
Honestly I can truly say, it would be, nice, but I don't feel like I got to get a Grammy or something to feel official. I'm cool but it would be nice Grammy Awards! -- Ginuwine
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs. -- David Fincher
There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York. -- Steve Martin
A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise. -- Mickey Rourke
The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations. -- Aga Khan IV
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
The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast I can't remember what I said or what happened. -- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture. -- Suzanne Fields
The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world. -- Natalie Massenet
Did you see Britney Spears at the Video Music Awards? I don't want to say that that performance was a disaster, but after the show, I saw Rudy Giuliani having his picture taken standing on her. -- Bill Maher
I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door. -- Neil Patrick Harris
The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened. -- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast. -- Tom Cruise
'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ...advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel Prize. ...and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees. -- Ralph W. Moss
Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film. -- Michael Haneke
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. -- Alfred Day Hershey
I only wanna go up the steps toward a different level of stardom. The BET Awards was one of those steps, the VMAs was another huge step. And the next step, eventually, hopefully, would be the Oscars. -- Kevin Hart

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