Oscars Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Gene Lees

  Years, Today, Jazz

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• Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

  Count Basie

  Play, Ivory, Boxes

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• Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

  Rita Hayworth

  Directors, Hollywood, Needs

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

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• Every generation has their own great players. Who's to say that anyone's better than Cheryl Miller or Nancy Lieberman? Whose anyone to say Michael Jordan is better than Oscar Robertson or Magic Johnson or Larry Bird? Every generation has its great player. There's never going to be one player that's so above and beyond anyone else.

  Diana Taurasi

  Player, Bird, Magic

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• The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.

  Doris Day

  Cheerful, Acting, Made

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

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• Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with it, wear it, or make love with it unless deeply disturbed. In and of itself, it has no emotions, no mind, and no conscience. It doesn't put out flowers or have children, and it makes a lousy pet. It has meaning only when it circulates, and is exchanged for other things; and money doesn't do that for itself. People do that, using money as a symbolic token.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Flower, People

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• If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes - they know the tricks.

  Tom Ford

  Real, Men, Eyebrows

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• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  Nate Berkus

  Dream, Brother, Boys

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• So often, trans roles don't even go to trans actors. Most of the fabulous trans roles that have won people Oscars, we didn't get to play. A lot of folks have said we're not trained enough and that we're not prepared to do whatever.

  Laverne Cox

  Play, People, Roles

  Source: variety.com

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• 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.

  Giles Matthey

  Dream, Actresses, Ridiculous

  Source: collider.com

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• The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me to the Oscars. If I had tried to imitate the Americans or the Hollywood movies with a commercial recipe, I'd never have gotten to Hollywood. Although, it was not my goal in any way, and I never thought there was any connection between Monsieur Lazhar and the Oscars.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Stars, Goal, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Stuff, Used, Enjoy

  Source: collider.com

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• If you look at the Oscars and look at the Best Foreign Language series, you see that the films are coming from everywhere - from Quebec, Israel, Poland, and Belgium. It's not the usual French, German, etc. This category is opening up to socially engaged and political films. I think we're going to see a cross over to the main categories also. It's part of this global environment now and I'm grateful that the Academy is having this window on world cinema.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Grateful, Thinking, Israel

  Source: collider.com

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• I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of film after ten years is honestly that if a picture doesn't get second-guessed you're looking at four Oscars, and if a picture does get second-guessed, you're not. I've got an advanced degree in that lesson.

  William Monahan

  Years, Directors, Degrees

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Bipasha Basu

  Demand, Hollywood, Roles

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• Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Hands, Wings

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• By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

  Michael Caine

  Chance, Seventies

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• I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's comment that "saints always have a past and sinners always have a future," so no investment should be ruled out simply on the basis of past history. We focus on liquidation analysis and liquidation analysis alone.

  Peter Cundill

  Past, Focus, Mind

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• I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want to listen to. I have a lot of jazz. I adore Ralph Towner, Leo Kottke. I've always been a big Oscar Peterson fan. I've branched out a little bit more in rock-and-roll, but that's maybe because I'm 50 years old and I can now listen to Steely Dan again without shame. I adore the Grateful Dead. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. All that's been fun to get back into. But I'm no longer interested in the Doobie Brothers.

  Thomas Hampson

  Brother, Fun, Grateful

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• When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.

  Brenda Fricker

  Lying, Winning, Airports

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• Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card.

  Robin Williams

  Giving, Cards, Green

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• The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Janet Maslin

  Confused, Nobel Peace Prize, Has Beens

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• To come to the Oscars for the first time and be seven months pregnant is quite a thing!

  Rachel Weisz

  Seven Months, Firsts, First Time

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

  Deniz Gamze Erguven

  Country, Directors, Language

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.

  Mara Wilson

  Girly, Clothes, Reincarnation

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