Quotes and Sayings About Oscars
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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
