Oscars Quotes

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

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

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

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

I would love to win an Oscar.

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.

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

[Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.

I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.

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

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.

The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations.

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

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

In Hollywood, Oscar is king.

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

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.

I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

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.

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

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.

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.

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

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

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

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

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.

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

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

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

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.

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.

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

If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.

Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.

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

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.