Oscars Quotes - Page 12

• I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

  Tim Robbins

  Care, Presenter

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• I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

  Julia Roberts

  Actors, World, Actresses

  "It smells like... victory" by Joe Neumaier, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, Majority, Cry

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• You don't make pictures for Oscars.

  Martin Scorsese

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Suing, Homosexuality

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• The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

  Carol Kane

  Names, People, Actors

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• The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our minds, we see it as a serene and elegant gathering of women in their finest, one of the big chances of the year to pretend you're at the Oscars, in your stilettos. In actuality of course, ... there are women staggering around in the unaccustomed vertical, foot-flesh spilling over tight, unkind satin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Fashion, Feet, Clothes

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• When I went to the Oscars - the only time I've ever been to the Oscars - a few years ago, I wore this Prada dress covered in cooking utensils. I got drunk at the end of the night and started ripping them off and giving them as presents to people, so that was fun. I'm pretty sure that was the point of it, that's how Miuccia meant for it to go I'm sure.

  Carey Mulligan

  Fun, Night, Years

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• You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

  James Franco

  Art, Sleep, Tuxedos

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• I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.

  Glenn Close

  Night, Mistaken

  "Telluride 2011: Glenn Close's Passion Project 'Albert Nobbs' Premieres" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 03, 2011.

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• It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Beautiful, Home, Mirrors

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

  George C. Scott

  Hands, Careers, International

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

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• This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it cant be.

  Javier Bardem

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'" by Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

  Gary Oldman

  Years, Racist, Vote

  "Gary Oldman Rants About Political Correctness, Defends Mel Gibson And Alec Baldwin (UPDATE)". Playboy Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

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• I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.

  Jean Simmons

  Knows

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

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• I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal

  Jennifer Connelly

  Growing Up, Thinking, Winning

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• Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Crowds, Lost, Showbiz

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played any of them slave roles, and get my ass whipped. That's how you get the nomination. A black dude who plays a slave that gets his ass whipped gets the nomination, a white guy who plays an idiot gets the Oscar. That's what I need, I need to play a retarded slave, then I'll get the Oscar.

  Eddie Murphy

  Boys, Play, White

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• Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.

  Bob Hope

  Drinking, Night, Suffering

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

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• I’ve been enjoying a couple of post-Oscar burgers. So I didn’t fit into a lot of the vintage stuff. I wanted to wear something that was a little bit more forgiving.

  Anne Hathaway

  Couple, Vintage, Forgiving

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• In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Past, Awards, Hands

  "Sigourney Weaver attacks Oscar voters". www.newyorkpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Winning, Play, Giving

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• You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

  Meryl Streep

  Winning, Audience

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• My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Thinking, Goal, Interesting

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

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• I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

  Megan Fox

  Winning

  "Megan Fox Says What She Thinks and Does What She Wants". Interview with Mark Kirby, www.gq.com. August 31, 2008.

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