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Oscars Quotes & Sayings

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You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special. — Rita Moreno

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way. — Nicolas Cage

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real. — William H. Macy

Is Chris Rock still gonna host the Oscars after this blatant racism?? Is everyone still gonna show up?? — Tyrese Gibson

When I was a little kid, I used to say, "I would rather host the Oscars than win an Oscar." To me, that seemed like the more appealing, fun gig. — Seth Rogen

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one. — Philippe Falardeau

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars. — Chris Rock

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic. — Steven Spielberg

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on. — Celine Dion

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

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

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist. — Whoopi Goldberg

Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card. — Robin Williams

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night. — Glenn Close

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar? — Michael Caine

If I ever go onstage at the Oscars, you can guarantee I'll be wearing my motorcycle boots. — Dean Winters

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars. — Tim Robbins

This is one night I wish I smoked and drank. — Grace Kelly

Will this coffee get me an Oscar? — Leonardo DiCaprio

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars. — Russell Simmons

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country. — Deniz Gamze Erguven

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'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have. — Robert Osborne

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me. — Brett Ratner

For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green — Bob Hope

The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy Award voter with a tampon in her purse. — Joan Rivers

The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated, — Juanita Moore

The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent to me and a few films throughout the year. — Julie Delpy

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary. — Duncan Roy

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing. — Chris Pratt

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture. — Christopher Hitchens

The Oscars is the one night of the year when you can see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party — Jon Stewart

I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known. — Gene Lees

Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry ... brightest. — 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

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art. — James Franco

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow. — Benicio Del Toro

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination. — Jerry Seinfeld

You don't make pictures for Oscars. — Martin Scorsese

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception. — Paul Haggis

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

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town. — Steve Martin

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything. — Elliott Smith

Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing. — Amanda Eliasch

Oh sure, now you like him [after the audience applaud David Oyelowo]. — Neil Patrick Harris

Make sure, for once and forever, that the color of our skin becomes as irrelevant as the lenght of our hair — Alejandro G. Inarritu

I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup. — Damien Chazelle

They almost had to cancel the Oscars tonight because all of the designers and stylists are still in line in San Francisco trying to marry one another. — Joan Rivers

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To come to the Oscars for the first time and be seven months pregnant is quite a thing! — Rachel Weisz

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet. — Oscar Wilde

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix. — Alexander Woollcott

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal ... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises. — Pawel Pawlikowski

I think I have a better chance at getting an Oscar before a Grammy. — Bow Wow

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period. — Marcia Gay Harden

Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service! — Billy Crystal

The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business. — Warren Beatty

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal. — Jennifer Connelly

People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars. — T-Pain

In Hollywood, Oscar is king — David Letterman

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure. — Alexander Woollcott

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win. — Roger Ebert

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else. — Jack Nicholson

I have several [favorite clothes designers], but I like to wear Akris, Oscar De La Renta and Giorgio Armani. — Condoleezza Rice

I am king of the world! — James Cameron

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde. — Camille Paglia

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen. — Robert Altman

I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards. — Mario Testino

It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff. — Shirley Horn

Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde. — Mara Wilson

I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie. — Andy Kindler

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize. — Janet Maslin

Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status. — C.Z. Hazard

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press. — Helen Mirren

This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon — Neil Patrick Harris

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

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry. — Frank Capra

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin. — Daniel Day-Lewis

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

I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one. — Cameron Diaz

Tom McCarthy said to me, 'Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man.' — Mark Ruffalo

God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this. — Shirley Maclaine

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk. — Ian McKellen

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get. — Paul Young

Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar — Dean Cavanagh

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

It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe. — Tobey Maguire

Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself. — Norman Chad

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show. — Chris Rock

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it. — Philippe Falardeau

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do. — Benny Carter

The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun. — Roger Ebert

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

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar, — Luis Bunuel

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar. — Michael Caine

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time. — Jean Simmons

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING. — Marlee Matlin

I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue. — Paul Hogan

Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done. — Avery Sunshine

I would love to win an Oscar. — Britney Spears