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I don't like awards ceremonies. I'd sooner go to the pub with mates I've known for years.

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.

Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you're always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it's kind of awkward.

I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.

Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.

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!

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

You don't want to make awards the reason you're doing things.

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.