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My awards are lovely. I love to show them off.

— Doris Roberts

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Awards are lovely and always welcome.

— Max von Sydow

I love awards, especially if I get them.

— Ben Gazzara

Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

— Sophie Thompson

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

— Barbra Streisand

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

— Penelope Cruz

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

— Aaron Tveit

Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.

— Charlyne Yi

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

— Joyce Carol Oates

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

— Iain Banks

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought.

— John Hurt