Awards quotes
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"While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile."
"I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards."
"I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter."
"I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them."
"You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake."
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"Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing."
"There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot."
"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."
"I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose."
"When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh."
"I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that."
"'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award."
"I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection."
"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."
"When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever."
"I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show."
"Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself."
"Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa."
"It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!"
"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."
"I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction."
"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."
"Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days."
"I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it."
"The whole concept of awards is silly. I cannot abide by the judgment of other people, because if you accept it when they say you deserve an award, then you have to accept it when they say you don't."
