Chris Bauer Quotes

The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy.

The Emmys are flat-out fun.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

I had been watching the Emmys since I was probably 5 years old. Those shows, when you're a kid, it all seems like such a big, big deal, and only special certain people would win one of these big things like a Tony or an Emmy or an Oscar.

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.

I was an Emmy nominee and an Emmy snub.

I honestly never really watch the Emmys.

I won an Emmy in 2006!

I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for “Best Special Effects.”

This past year, we received our second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Series. While we'd all like to win, I can say with utmost sincerity that it mattered more to me that we got noticed than whether or not we win.

Are you kidding? This is crazy, man. I thought I was Mr. Pre-Televised awards.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytelling.

I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.

I'm not getting an Emmy.

I've had the joy of working on critically acclaimed shows, but unfortunately, those shows aren't always in the Golden Globe or Emmy categories, which bums me out because they are really good, quality shows.

There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first - well way back - but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plan and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.

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

The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

I was never upset that I did not get an Emmy. That I did get an Emmy nomination, I couldn't be happier and prouder.

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.