Oscars Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Cameron Diaz

  Dark, Thinking, Brooding

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

  Juliette Binoche

  Real, Real Work, Get Back

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• I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

  Juliette Binoche

  Thinking, Careers, Want

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• I've never been to the Oscars, but if I was ever invited to the Oscars, I would have this weird paranoia of terrorism. It just feels like The Poseidon Adventure, everyone in their tuxes. Somehow, I feel like the whole time I would be looking for where the nearest exit was, and in a cold sweat about some kind of man-made disaster, like a terrorist strike or something. It seems like such a scary, claustrophobic proposition.

  Mike White

  Adventure, Men, Sweat

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• When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas. He knew them only 'in Braille' - the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial - after a life like that?

  Quentin Crisp

  Plato, Boys, Names

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• I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show . . . What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one. And they don't recognize comedy, and you don't see a lot of black people nominated, so why should I watch it?

  Chris Rock

  Fashion, Men, People

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• I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

  Woody Allen

  Winning, Thinking, Kind

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

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• Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Children, Kids, Doors

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• If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Gay, Thinking, Race

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• It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  Al Pacino

  Winning, Feelings, Gold

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• Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Father, Months, Week

  "Maestro of Broadway". www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• 'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Talking, Careers, Patient

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• I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

  Emma Thompson

  Friends, Good Friend, Men

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

  Harvey Weinstein

  Excellence, Accepting, Goliath

  "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.wbaa.org. December 2, 2011.

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• When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

  Harvey Weinstein

  Artist, Excellence, Doe

  "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.wbaa.org. December 2, 2011.

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• Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

  Rachel Weisz

  Romantic, Girl, Winning

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. April 22, 2003.

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• When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

  Martin Filler

  Accomplishment, Survivor, Lasts

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• As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

  George Plimpton

  People, Too Much, Way

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• Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

  Rob Sheffield

  Dog, Jobs, Hero

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• If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Feeling Down, Red Lipstick, Feelings

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• I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Should Have, Things In Life

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

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• To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

  Chris Pratt

  Waiter

  "Dumb Luck". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

  Chris Pratt

  Sea, Fruit Flies, Two

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

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• As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Soccer, Stars, Player

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

  Nicole Richie

  Classic, Timeless

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