Academy Awards Quotes - Page 5

• Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

  Ben Kingsley

  Letting Go, Awards, Wife

  Interview with Reed Tucker, www.esquire.com. March 30, 2007.

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• I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays.

  Leigh-Allyn Baker

  Holiday, Winning, Awards

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• I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Baby, Sex, Awards

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

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• If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.

  Burt Reynolds

  Awards, Play, Want

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

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• You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.

  Julia Phillips

  Girl, Winning, Awards

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• As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.

  Martin Scorsese

  Kids, Winning, Awards

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Dad, Awards, Ideas

  "Ed Begley Jr. on Blunt Talk, St. Elsewhere, and Spinal Tap". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2015.

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• I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

  Al Pacino

  Winning, Awards, Made

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• I had no idea that such a thing could happen. It never occurred to me.My son told me. He called me and said, "Darling, I just wanted you to know that you have been chosen to receive an honorary Academy Award." I was in the back of this car, and I said, "Oh," and burst into tears, of course, because it was so unexpected and quite wonderful. I thought it's been worth hanging around all these years.

  Angela Lansbury

  Son, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

  Paul Mooney

  Awards, White, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.

  Anna Held

  Life, Awards, Tears

  "Luise Rainer, double Oscar winner, dies aged 104". www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.

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• If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Taken, Awards, Japan

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had success as an actor relatively early. When I was 22, I got nominated for an Academy Award for The Last Picture Show, so that road, you know, had the least resistance. I was doing my music all that time, but it's pretty hard to turn down these great movie offers. And my father counseled me; he said, "You know, one of the wonderful things about acting is that you can incorporate all of your interests into the different parts you play." I'm glad I listened to the old man, because that's the way it turned out.

  Jeff Bridges

  Father, Men, Acting

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview With Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

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