Award Ceremony Quotes

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

What did winning a Grammy do for me? It made me want to get rid of my Grammy, pack it away, and never see it again. It made me not want to speak to anyone who wanted to speak about my Grammy.

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'.

I was on MTV's 'Real World' at the time when 'Queer Eye' came out. I remember, the first time I won an award, I got the award, and they were like, 'It's a tie! With 'Queer Eye!'' I never thought that I would one day follow in their footsteps.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

I mean, if I'm going to the Oscars or something, yes, there are people that are contributing and I'll tell them what I don't like or whatever. I know what I don't like.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy.

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

I watch the Oscars in my pajamas like everybody else.

It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

When I was nominated for the Oscar, I was absolutely positive that Judy Garland would win for 'Judgment at Nuremberg,' and then they call my name, and I was absolutely paralyzed. And I remember walking down to the stage and saying to myself, 'Don't run. It's not dignified.'

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

I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them.

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.