Acceptance Speech Quotes

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

  Steven Spielberg

  Oscars, Fantastic, Wanted

  Steven Spielberg's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1999.

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• I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

  Sally Field

  Facts, Deny, Like Me

  Sally Field's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 25, 1985.

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

  Sandra Bullock

  Oscars, Academy Awards

  Oscar Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Acceptance Speech, delivered 7 March 2010

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• Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

  Robin Williams

  Father, Memorable, Men

  "Flashback: Robin Williams’ 1998 Oscar Acceptance Speech" by David Humphreys, etcanada.com. August 12, 2014.

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

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Oscars, God Bless

  Shirley MacLaine's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. April 9, 1984.

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• A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Confused, Creativity, Sleep

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• Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

  William Shatner

  Hurt, Writing, Acceptance

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• I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Littles, Oscars, Tomorrow

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• 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.

  Halle Berry

  Doors, Tonight, Oscars

  Halle Berry's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 24, 2002.

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• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and...and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Orchestra, May

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• When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.

  Meryl Streep

  Names, America, Awards

  Oscar Acceptance Speech, www.usatoday.com. February 27, 2012.

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• This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.

  Grace Kelly

  Night, Wish, Oscars

  Grace Kelly's Oscar acceptance speech, 1954.

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• There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

  Clint Eastwood

  Movie, Winning, Awards

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• I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Competition, Acting

  "Best Actress 2016: who are the Oscar nominees?". Article by Brie Larson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 29, 2016.

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

  Nora Ephron

  Writing, Acceptance, Care

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

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• You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

  Christopher Plummer

  Two, Years, Oscars

  "Nostalgic night for Academy Awards". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2012.

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• 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.

  John Wayne

  Weather, Littles, Oscars

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• Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Truth, Unconditional Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

  Jamie Foxx

  I Love You, Dream, Sleep

  Jamie Foxx' Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 27, 2005.

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• Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

  Jose Saramago

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Littles

  Jose Saramago's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1998.

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• This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.

  Ashley Benson

  Crazy, Kids, Acceptance

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

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• Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Acceptance, Hands

  "Murakami defies protests to accept Jerusalem prize" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2009.

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• There's another totally fraudulent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore hadn't done anything but make a movie that itself was filled with misrepresentations about the amount of ice the poor polar bears have to live on, doctored photos. He said in his acceptance speech in 2007, getting a Nobel Peace Prize, that the North Pole would be ice free by 2013. Today the truth is, there is a record amount of arctic ice for this time of year. He couldn't have been more wrong.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Acceptance, Done, Today

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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