Oscars famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.
-- Ada Leverson -
Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.
-- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu -
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'
-- Ang Lee -
[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.
-- Anna Magnani -
My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
-- Anne Dudley -
My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.
-- Bai Ling -
I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.
-- Ben Whishaw -
I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
I feel very honored and special really. You can't imagine, to arrive at the Oscars when you arrive so low, and you can't go further than the Oscars.
-- Berenice Bejo -
Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
-- Bernadette Peters -
I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.
-- Bette Davis -
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
-- Brander Matthews -
Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.
-- Brenda Blethyn -
I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.
-- Brett Ratner -
I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.
-- Brett Ratner -
They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.
-- Bruce Vilanch -
I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
-- Cate Blanchett -
To go to the Oscars for Moneyball - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.
-- Chris Pratt -
To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.
-- Chris Pratt -
You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.
-- Chris Wedge -
Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win...not many.
-- Christopher Judge -
You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?
-- Christopher Plummer -
I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.
-- Daniel Woodrell -
When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!
-- Demian Bichir -
Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.
-- Dianne Wiest -
I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.
-- Dick Van Dyke -
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
-- E. M. Forster -
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.
-- Elizabeth Banks -
It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.
-- Ellen Burstyn -
I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
-- Elliott Smith -
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.
-- Emma Goldman -
The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.
-- Frank Capra -
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
-- Frederic Raphael -
At the Oscars, if you didnt vote for 12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.
-- Gary Oldman -
But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
-- George C. Scott -
As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.
-- George Plimpton -
I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'
-- George Steinbrenner -
I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.
-- Glenn Close -
Free food!" mumbled Hamilton, his mouth full. "No wonder you're rich. You don't have to pay for anything." "Since when is it free?" Jonah demanded. "If I don't leave a big tip, it'll be all over Europe that the Wiz is a cheapskate! They'll seat me behind the sound-man from the penguin movie at the Oscars!
-- Gordon Korman -
I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.
-- Graydon Carter -
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?
-- Harvey Weinstein -
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
-- Helen Hunt -
When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.
-- Hilary Swank -
I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set.
-- Hugh Jackman -
It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
-- Idris Elba -
I never won an Oscar... and the Oscars never won Irene Papas
-- Irene Papas -
I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
-- Jack Lemmon -
I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.
-- Javier Bardem -
I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.
-- Jean Simmons -
The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
-- Jeff Bridges -
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.
-- Jessica Yu -
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
-- Jim Broadbent -
Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones.
-- Joanne Lipman -
Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.
-- Jordana Brewster -
The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated,
-- Juanita Moore -
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
-- Julia Stiles -
So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.
-- Kate Winslet -
The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.
-- Kathy Bates -
Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
-- Kathy Bates -
I went from everyone saying, "She-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that!
-- Keira Knightley -
Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!
-- Kelly Marcel -
I just want to thank everybody I've ever met in my entire life.
-- Kim Basinger -
'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
-- Kristin Scott Thomas -
Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.
-- Kyra Sedgwick -
The Oscar nominations are out, and they’re so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them,
-- Larry Wilmore -
When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.
-- LeBron James -
They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.
-- Linda Fiorentino -
Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton
-- Lou Lumenick -
Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar,
-- Luis Bunuel -
I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.
-- Marlee Matlin -
Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.
-- Marlee Matlin -
When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.
-- Marlee Matlin -
I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.
-- Marlee Matlin -
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.
-- Martin Filler -
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
-- Max Beerbohm -
I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.
-- Melissa Rosenberg -
At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.
-- Mercedes McCambridge -
The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.
-- Mira Sorvino -
Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
-- Morgan Freeman -
Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
Oh sure, now you like him [after the audience applaud David Oyelowo].
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple
-- Neil Simon -
I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.
-- Nick Nolte -
Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.
-- Nicolas Roeg -
I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.
-- Nicole Richie -
I've always wanted to appear in a 3-D Movie, that's always been a goal of mine. If you appear in a 3-D picture you are a shoo-in for an Oscar. There's no competition.
-- Nikki Cox -
Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
-- Norman Jewison -
I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!
-- Octavia Spencer
