A Quote by Laraine Day

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.

Laraine Day

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Academy Academy Award Award Pennant Rather Than Win

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Laraine Day
American - Actress
October 13, 1920 - November 10, 2007

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

Laraine Day

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

Malcolm McDowell

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Marlene Dietrich

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

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.