#Awards Quotes

“I'm hungry for VMAs and Grammys. That's my main goal.”

“Imagine Pulitzer prizefighting.”

“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.”

“To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.”

“Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.”

“If I don't win, the award show loses credibility.”

“I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?”

“I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.”

“I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.”

“Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!”

“Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.”

“We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.”

“As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.”

“No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.”

“Of course awards matter.”

“The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.”

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

“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.”

“No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?”

“When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You’ve just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan says, it’s a pat on the back, so great you’ll take it and then move on.”