Quotes For Awards Ceremony

#1. The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

Suzanne Fields

#2. You save time when you don't need to have an awards ceremony every time a C statement does what it's supposed to. Moreover,

Steve McConnell

#3. If I go to an awards ceremony, I wear a suit, of course I do. I am proud to be there. If there are young kids looking at pictures of me, I want them to feel that they should long for the opportunity to go somewhere really smart and wear a beautiful suit, rather than to reject that.

Tinie Tempah

#4. This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#5. I think the hardest thing about writing is writing.
[Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, Feb. 24, 2013]

Nora Ephron

#6. My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.

Nora Ephron

#7. Herein lies the secret to an upheld life: "My soul clings to You and Your right hand upholds me." As we cast the whole of ourselves upon Him, He is able to hold us up.

Eric Gimour

#8. I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.

Kenny Rogers

#9. There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. Hot oil! We need hot oil! ... Forget the water balloons!

Gary Larson

#11. You live and you learn.

Florence Welch

#12. In 'Kill Rock n' Roll,' the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part, you can hear a melody and a harmony there that's not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there's heavy guitars in the back.

Daron Malakian

#13. The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

Karl Marx

#14. Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

Hugh Laurie

#15. Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

Craig Stone

#16. Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

Catherine Crier

#17. 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

#18. I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.

Anne Lamott

#19. Are we going to kick arse and take names, Miss Kane?" "I was thinking we'd maybe just ask them some questions. Politely.

Alexis Hall

#20. The best lies were always mixed with truth.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

Nia Vardalos