Are you kidding? This is crazy, man. I thought I was Mr. Pre-Televised awards.
If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.
I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago.
It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!
Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.
I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.
But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.
I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.
One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.
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.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.
I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.
The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.
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!
For the most part, these awards shows, while they are fun, they're high-pressure for the people who are nominated and for those walking the red carpet.
Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
That whole concept of 'I want to really go after people' - I don't understand that. Is it a roast, or is it an awards show?
When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don't think about awards and things like that.
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.
I love awards, especially if I get them.
Dance music has evolved very much. From DJs playing at the Olympics, to playing at the Super Bowl, working with Cirque Du Soleil and even getting recognized at the Grammys with awards, dance music is growing in a big way.
Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.
Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.
I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.
I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.
I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.
