Award Quotes

One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.

I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.

Awards don’t really mean much.

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.

I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.

It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.

My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, ‘That’s it-let’s get the hell outta here.’