Oscars Quotes - Page 17

• I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

  Roger Ebert

  Winning, Years, Firsts

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• Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't win.

  David Brooks

  Winning, Average, Years

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• I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Home, Pakistan, Proud

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• Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Wine, Mean

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• I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

  Julianne Moore

  Husband, Mean, Winning

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• Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCaprio came over, bowed down, and kissed my hand. It was the most fabulous moment - such a lovely gesture. He didn't say anything.

  Helen Mirren

  Home, Winning, Hands

  "Helen Mirren: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 07, 2011.

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• Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Condom, Enjoy

  "Oscars 2015: The Winners' Reactions" by Austin Siegemund-Broka, Carolyn Giardina, Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.

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• Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Winning, Acting

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

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• Christoph Waltz is stunning, an insanely nice guy. He is not only a ridiculously good actor, he’s also funny, helpful & a good colleague. I like his work ethic. I mean, the guy has won an Oscar and despite that he is receptive, open-minded & not the least bit snooty. Reese Witherspoon is the same. It may be the nicest cast that I have worked with yet.

  Robert Pattinson

  Nice, Mean, Work Ethic

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• I feel that there are great minds up there who would like to see what I can do with an Oscar nomination. I guess many people would change after a nomination in the way they see things. In my case it's really irrelevant in terms of what I do. Still, it was an incredible experience which I will put in my memories, like everything else.

  River Phoenix

  Memories, People, Mind

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

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• I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

  William H. Macy

  Jobs, Agents, Want

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• If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Running, Directors, Boards

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• Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, Four, Deafness

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• I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

  Marlee Matlin

  Winning, Deaf, Deafness

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• Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

  Faye Dunaway

  Differences, Effort, Records

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• I never won an Oscar...and the Oscars never won Irene Papas.

  Irene Papas

  Papa

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

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• Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the US] I hope they can be treated with respect of the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Government, Years, Two

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• Will this coffee get me an Oscar?

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Coffee

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• The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they’re not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, "If you’d done that in the movie, you’d have won an Oscar, girl."

  Chris Rock

  Girl, Rocks, Should Have

  Chris Rock's remarks as host at the 77th Academy Awards ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, February 27, 2005.

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• I can't believe 50 years have gone by since that film was released. I blinked and suddenly here I am. We all really felt blessed and as for me; how lucky can a girl get. Great music does more than enhance a film, it cements our memories in the film going experience.

  Julie Andrews

  Girl, Memories, Believe

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• When I was 16 years old I tried to kill myself because I felt different and that I didn't belong. Now I'm here, and I want this moment to be for that kid who feels weird or different. Stay weird, stay different.

  Graham Moore

  Kids, Years, Different

  "Oscars 2015 Speeches: The Winners of the Winners" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.

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• I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Men, Hands, Feet

  "Oscars 2015: Read Stephen Hawking's Touching Words for Winner Eddie Redmayne" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2015.

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• There's my pessimism. Because I didn't know yet that type of film is always going to become more extinct, that there won't be anymore. Because there will always be more films that win five Oscars like Terms of Endearment.

  Sergio Leone

  Winning, Film, Pessimism

  Interview With Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. December 28, 2012.

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• One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a point where a movie like "Moonlight" winning [Oscar] or Barry Jenkins being nominated and winning, you know, for a screenplay or being nominated for best director - that it's just commonplace. They shouldn't be a novelty.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Winning, Steps, Novelty

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm pretty sure that wasn't Oscar's first time getting harassed or held-up by authorities. And over time you start to feel some type of way when you get pulled over. "Oh, I gotta go through this. Again."

  Michael B. Jordan

  Way, Firsts, Authority

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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