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
The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they’re handing it out. – Harold Prince
You know those award shows. The cliche is that it’s an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don’t know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it’s deserving. – Hank Azaria
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work – which I thought was okay. – Harold Pinter
On behalf of the entire Lionsgate team, it is a tremendous honor and deeply humbling to join the elite group of recipients previously honored with the Milestone Award. – Jon Feltheimer
I think every artist wants to have that ‘Grammy award winner’ tag in front of their name. – Jason Aldean
That’s always – that’s been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play. – Janet Jackson
The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels. – Jeff Bridges
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
The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a ‘Man of the Year’ award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza, from the USO. – Jack Keane
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’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough. – Beyonce Knowles
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
‘Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award. – Bill Murray
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
I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. – Aaron Neville
In India I’ve been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it’s in English so it’s a much bigger scale. – Anil Kapoor
I can’t describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person. – Joe Jamail
You don’t get time to meet your peers such as Dharmendra and Hema Malini very often. Award functions or other events are the only places you meet them, unless there is an emergency. Then we all come together. – Amitabh Bachchan
At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. – Anita Roddick
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
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’m going for Britain’s Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I’m never on the list. – Anton du Beke
An Oscar means a lot of things because it’s like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you’re creating you shouldn’t think about it. – Alejandro Amenabar