All Quotes

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

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz

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

Awards are lovely and always welcome.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
‐‐ Bill Murray

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
‐‐ Aaron Tveit

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.
‐‐ Fan Bingbing

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.
‐‐ Tony Randall

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 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

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
‐‐ Jesse Owens

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
‐‐ Alan Alda

Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.
‐‐ Charlyne Yi

Awards do not pay the mortgage.
‐‐ Kevin Chamberlin

Awards don't really mean much.
‐‐ Uta Hagen

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.
‐‐ Katherine Kelly

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
‐‐ Ernie Banks

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

Awards season is always a huge amount of fun whether you're a part of it or not. It's always really exciting seeing what films are coming and a lot of new talent as well.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
‐‐ Tony Randall

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.
‐‐ Jane Kaczmarek

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

Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards.
‐‐ Alan Alda

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

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
‐‐ Emma Willard

Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.
‐‐ Vinnie Jones

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.
‐‐ Bernice Weissbourd

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
‐‐ Serj Tankian

Awareness is empowering.
‐‐ Rita Wilson

Awareness is the key to everything. I think it's important to be aware of how you feel. How do you feel after you exercise? How do you feel after you eat something? I try to be mindful of the food I'm putting in my body, the products I use, and what I put in or on my body.
‐‐ Lauren Bowles

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
‐‐ Shoshana Zuboff

Awareness without action is worthless.
‐‐ Phil McGraw

Away from the pitch, I'm a very calm person. I maybe have the odd cross word with my wife, like any relationship, but that's it.
‐‐ Luis Suarez

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
‐‐ Ernestine Rose

Awe and respect are two different things.
‐‐ Oliver Reed

'Awkward Black Girl' is spreading to all the right people because of word of mouth and social networks. I'm so grateful.
‐‐ Issa Rae

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.
‐‐ Marc Jacobs

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.
‐‐ Kenny Hickey

'Awwsome' was a different type of song for an artist like me, but it's still a true song. I was talking street stuff, but I was feeling awesome.
‐‐ Shy Glizzy

'Axe Cop' is an animated show that just started on Fox that is based off the comic book series. And here's the hook: it's written by a 5-year-old. This 5-year-old has a brother who's, like, 28 and is in the business, and the little brother kept coming up with all these awesome stories for this character he dreamed up called Axe Cop.
‐‐ Rob Huebel

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.
‐‐ Kris Gopalakrishnan

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
‐‐ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
‐‐ Edward Moore

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
‐‐ Patrick Kavanagh

Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress.
‐‐ Geoff Davis

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
‐‐ Christy Turlington