Oscars Quotes
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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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