Academy Awards Quotes - Page 3

• I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

  Kevin Smith

  Winning, Awards, Film

  "On Twitter, filmmaker Kevin Smith is a superstar". Interview with Erin Biba, www.wired.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

  Todd Phillips

  Writing, Awards, Academy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

  Edward Norton

  Couple, Thinking, Awards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

  Bill Murray

  Groundhog Day, Awards, Scripts

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• Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.

  Bob Hope

  Awards, House, Welcome

  "Oscar host Alec Baldwin may also be nominee" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 30, 2009.

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• An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Dream, Awards, Nominations

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• As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.

  Johnny Carson

  Awards, Two, Four

  "The 51st Annual Academy Awards", TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

  Mark Ruffalo

  Dad, Play, Awards

  "Mark Ruffalo talks Spotlight, Thor: Ragnarok and Columbo". Interview with Phil De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. February 1, 2016.

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• You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing 'Crank,' and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done.

  Jason Statham

  Awards, Done, Crank

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• Not everything's made to win an Academy Award.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Winning, Awards, Made

  "The Snakes on a Plane Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Awards, Watches

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• There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.

  Steve Martin

  New York, Book, Awards

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

  Michael Caine

  Awards, House, Cider

  "Michael Caine: 'I Spent My Life Doing Something That I Love'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, peconicpublicbroadcasting.org. May 30, 2013.

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• I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Awards, People, Honor

  "Oscar Nominees Lunch With Academy, Party at THR Event as Final Voting Approaches" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 03, 2015.

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• It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

  Michael Caine

  Winning, Awards, Careers

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• I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.

  Eva Marcille

  Sorry, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, "Academy Award winner so-and-so."

  Robert Osborne

  Real, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.

  Sherry Lansing

  Successful, Afterlife, Awards

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Winning, Awards, Body

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

  Denzel Washington

  Awards, Realising, Academy

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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

  Helen Hunt

  Awards, Earthquakes, Oscars

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• I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

  Tom Hanks

  Games, Awards, Cards

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• I don't think I will ever be able to really articulate how bizarre it was to hear my name at the Academy Awards. I'd watched in my pajamas the year before! I felt numb - dazed and confused. I remember feeling light - weightless. More like limbo than cloud nine. At first I was like, This is my statue; nobody gets to touch it. And by midnight I was like, Please, someone, take this statue; it's too heavy! So I gave it to my brother, and he went off with it.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Brother, Confused, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.

  Viola Davis

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal Of Honor. It's the best endorsement you could get as a moviemaker.

  Robert Osborne

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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