Oscars Quotes

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

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

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

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

[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.

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

If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

Oscar Peterson is my favorite all-around pianist. There are pianists I like because of one thing and pianists I like because of another. But overall, I like Oscar Peterson best.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

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.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.

The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated.

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.

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

For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.

Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to someone. You won't get the Oscar for it. But, after all, why are you writing and why are you filming?

I am king of the world!

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

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

Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

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

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

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

You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart.

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.

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.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

I just want to thank everybody I have ever met in my entire life.

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!

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer.

In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.'

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

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.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

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.

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'