Award Quotes

You're kind of speechless. Just when you look at those that have received the award previously, it's pretty nice company to keep. - Joe Mirabito

You're kidding. I didn't even get a T-shirt. They won't even give me a ticket to the Video Music Awards in Miami in a couple of weeks. - Dale Mitchell

You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. [Accepting his Independent Spirit Award] - Sean Penn

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

You look at his numbers this year at Triple-A and they're just phenomenal. He's well deserving of the award. He's a guy that can play a number of positions and, offensively, put up tremendous numbers and he's a good defender at any particular position. This is a guy who, even in a non-everyday role, can help any big league club. - Bob Melvin

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament. - Sean Connery

You know, I live in Michigan... I've worked with a lot of guys who make a lot more money than I do and have won awards and all that. I don't brood about it, but it's there, and everybody wishes they were recognized more, appreciated more. So I just kind of took that, poured gasoline on it and lit it. Then I had (Bernard). Then he was there. - Jeff Daniels

You know, he's a very talented, skillful surgeon. He won awards for being the top plastic surgeon in Houston several years in a row. I?m hopeful he can get back to his life of helping other people. - Dick DeGuerin

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists! - Joseph Jarman