Mastership Award Quotes

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me. ~ Luke Bryan

I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win this award - I'm still Sam at the end of the day. And that's what defines me. ~ Sam Bradford

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. ~ Jack Nicholson

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor. ~ Javier Bardem

A new kind of award has been added
the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television. ~ Marlene Dietrich

You mustn't take any award so seriously. ~ Tony Randall

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award. ~ Malcolm McDowell

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor. ~ Noam Chomsky

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing. ~ David Nail

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out. ~ Harold Prince

The IMPAC is a terribly important award. ~ David Bergen

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

I think the Grammy is like the award, you know. ~ Brandy Norwood

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

I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas. ~ James McAvoy

The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment. ~ Wynonna Judd

You can't earn honour by getting an award from a dishonourable person! You only earn dishonour! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music. ~ Jake Bugg

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

Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men. ~ William Morris

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately. ~ Minnie Driver

It's really wonderful that it's the whole franchise being recognized and it's a collective award. Each film has anywhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people working on it and so really the award is for each and every one of us. We are like a family. ~ David Heyman

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award. ~ Andie MacDowell

There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon. ~ George Vecsey

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work. ~ Linda Fiorentino

though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; ~ Herman Melville

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

An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences. ~ Shreya Ghoshal

I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any writer does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder. ~ Nitya Prakash

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. ~ Rachael Taylor

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with. ~ Mercedes Ruehl

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. ~ Marguerite Young

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one. ~ Nicole Kidman

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award. ~ Shari Sebbens

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool. ~ Nicolas Cage

Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony. ~ Luis Walter Alvarez

He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave. ~ Idries Shah

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort. ~ John Bardeen

I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously. ~ Ian Gomez

The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won. ~ Barry Sanders

I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person. ~ Joe Jamail

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction. ~ Dave Eggers

Mounting anything on a plaque instantly transforms it from trash into an award. For example, a dry disposable pen goes from junk clutter to the first annual writer's award for dry humor. ~ Jarod Kintz

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter. ~ Denzel Washington

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

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award. ~ Seth Grahame-Smith

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award. ~ Denis Leary

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels. ~ Jeff Bridges

I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list. ~ Anton Du Beke

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 no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s. ~ Solomon Ortiz

Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value
to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith
in them so I would prefer to stay away. ~ Aamir Khan

'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award! ~ Tom Goodman-Hill

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them. ~ Garry Disher

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic. ~ Louise Penny

Darwin Award. That's not a real award, it's a joke. They give them to people who die doing something so stupid that it counts as a service to humanity. ~ Gregg Dunnett

LOUIS SACHAR is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Holes, winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award. He is also the author of Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents' Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book. His books for younger readers include There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others. ~ Louis Sachar

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. ~ Henry Winkler

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. ~ Jack Benny

I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian. ~ Elizabeth Taylor

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure. ~ Patty Duke

I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing. ~ Marie Windsor

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. ~ John Corigliano

'Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience. ~ Cynthia Kadohata

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

A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is, 'suck it, Jesus! This award is my God now'! ~ Kathy Griffin

Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying. ~ Brad Thor

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'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever. ~ Barry Levinson

It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something. ~ Leslie Mann

Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities. ~ Kevin Bacon

For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team. ~ Sheryl Swoopes

I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning. ~ Daniel D. Mich

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store. ~ Dan Fogler

I have a Tony Award now. It hasn't changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and TV stuff, where people will see me more easily now because they know me. ~ Casey Nicholaw

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of. ~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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

It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005. ~ Teri Hatcher

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili. ~ Joely Fisher

One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem. ~ Victor LaValle

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

To award prizes is to attempt to control the course of another man's work. It is a bid to have him do what you will approve. It affects not only the one who wins the award, but all those who in any measure strive for it. ~ Robert Henri

I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you. ~ Sandra Cisneros

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup ... I end up always picking the dress at the last second. ~ Julie Bowen

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot. ~ Wesley Schultz

The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look. ~ Cameron Russell

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership ~ Aron Nimzowitsch

People see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin. ~ Charles Bukowski

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value. ~ Phylicia Rashad

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house. ~ Steven Wright

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat. ~ Kirsten Dunst

Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election! ~ Ashwin Sanghi

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I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them. ~ Christopher Lloyd

I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again. ~ Joanne Woodward

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. ~ Javier Bardem

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement. ~ John Hawkes

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel. ~ Martin Amis

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. ~ John Corigliano