Top 1200 Award Shows Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

I believe that reality shows are extremely important for the talented. Contestants get a platform where they can prove their talent. If they are good at what they do, their life is made. Personally, reality shows have helped me get fame and money.

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'

I used to put flyers on cars in parking lots, anything to get people to come to my shows. I was always having to think outside the box, and even to this day, I still try and come up with creative ways to market my shows.

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.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

Reality shows are a lot of fun, especially dance reality shows.

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

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

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.

I would love to see more swings in areas that we haven't explored. I can't necessarily tell you what that is - I think you know it when you see it - but I think we've had a lot of the same-themed shows in broadcast, but those shows are still performing.

I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool.

I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.

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

I'm so honored that I got the best guitarist award for the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards.

I've always loved playing live shows. I love traveling, seeing the country. I've made a lot of lifelong friends on the road at shows. It's so neat to see that so many of our fans have become friends. There are these nice little groups of "X People" everywhere.

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.

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.

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.

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

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!

Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.

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

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.

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

You've got to pay the bills, and you want to get your foot in. The great shows usually aren't going to look for somebody completely untested, so you have to kind of get your feet wet doing other shows.

Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

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.'

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy. I don't know how to do the other, so I won't consider television until the audience's taste changes.

I've gone from a kid who was sneaking out of my childhood house and lying to my parents to do shows in a community theatre in Reading, PA, to now having two shows on Broadway opening within two months of each other. That's sort of crazy, that trajectory.

On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor.

As a viewer, I love to watch reality shows, and being a part of the industry, I feel it helps a lot. There are a lot of talented artists in small towns and villages of India, and these shows are a huge platform to showcase their talent and bring them to the forefront.

I am overjoyed to receive the Michael H. Goldberg Coach of the Year Award from the National Basketball Coaches Association.

When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.

Any chick that I handle, I teach ‘em patience. How not to win the award but be glad for your nomination.

Even the greatest player of all times loses sets or is down in a match. It just shows that, you know, a win is never guaranteed. It shows all of us that we have to work for every point, fight for every point no matter what.

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

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.

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

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

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

You watch these reality shows and say, 'Oh, I would do that, except for eating all the gross stuff.' These reality shows are like everyone's little guilty pleasure. To have an opportunity to be on one, why not? Anybody who says, 'No, I don't want to be on one' is kind of lying in the back of their heads.

Earlier, we had shows like 'Hasratein' and 'Shanti,' which had great storylines and mature content. Now, with a hundred shows running five to seven days a week, the TV industry has become very torturous and taxing for the actors.

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

I got an award for Most Improved Player for volleyball in tenth grade that I cared about a lot.

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.

TV has taken a crazy turn, especially in the industry of food, where everything is either a competition show or a sort of reality show. We've lost the kind of shows that are, like, 'Here's how you do this,' like the old Julia Child shows.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much dominated by men. So having a sense of what women are up to, for me, frankly, is very, very important.

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

My name had been sent for the award for Best Supporting Actor in 'Tere Naam,' but I missed it.

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

The United Nations Award for India's efforts in the field of environment conservation has made every Indian proud.

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

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!