Awards Quotes
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.Awards
Dietrich, Marlene
1904-1992 German-born American Film Actor
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
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Early, Gerald
1952 American Author
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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Graves, Robert
1895-1985 British Poet Novelist
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
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Heller, Joseph
1923 American Author
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.
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Lennon, John
1940-1980 British Rock Musician
The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
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Mamet, David
1947 American Playwright
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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Ustinov, Peter
1921 British Actor Writer Director