Oscars Quotes - Page 23

• Also I don't want to refer to myself as Maximilian. You'd have to win an Oscar or become mind-numbingly wealthy or hit 50. It's like smoking a cigar, you know what I mean? You can't be a young guy and do it.

  Max Irons

  Mean, Winning, Smoking

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Neurosis, Stuff, Narcissism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In some ways, the most rewarding thing I've done were the two times that I did the Oscars, particularly the first time because it was really like the ultimate "Let's put on a show," with every great movie star in the world available.

  Laura Ziskin

  Stars, Two, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• That's one of the things we're most excited about, really, is just allowing this great, Oscar-nominated actor, giving him material to play in one of his signature roles.

  David Kirschner

  Play, Giving, Signatures

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"

  Benicio Del Toro

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.

  Robert Altman

  Nice, Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

  Robert Altman

  Nice, Winning, Expectations

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• Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

  Al Lewis

  Sleep, Bridges, Rich

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• The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Men, Female, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for The Social Network.

  Liberty Ross

  Brother, Years, Social Network

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• In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

  Christian Kane

  Entertainment, Longevity, Grammy

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• I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.

  Florence Welch

  Long, People, Want

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• You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

  Olivia Wilde

  Talking, People, Film

  "Olivia Wilde: 'People thought I could only play the badass" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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• So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

  Kate Winslet

  Moving, Proud, Film

  Interview to V Magazine, September, 2011.

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• I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

  Elliott Smith

  Thinking

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• It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'

  Paul Newman

  Beautiful, Sorry, Tired

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sunset, Pay, Wilde

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed. Inside, he was in a world of hurt. He saw black flashes before his eyes. He saw himself falling through the air. He knew what he was turning into. He was turning into the worst kind of human on the planet: an old bitter dork. Saw himself at the Game Room, picking through the miniatures for the rest of his life. He didn't want this future but he couldn't see how it could be avoided, couldn't figure his way out of it. Fukú.

  Junot Diaz

  Hurt, Fall, Tired

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.268, Faber & Faber

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• A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the braw warrior who won her heart. Oscar bade his beloved tae wait for him while he went tae seek his fortune. But one black day Malvina received word that her lover had been killed in battle. He would lie forever in eternal rest in the faraway hills…lost in endless slumber…” “God, I envy him,” St. Vincent said feelingly, rubbing his own dark-circled eyes.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lying, Eye, Heart

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

  Oscar Levant

  Music, Trying, Movement

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• Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.

  Junot Diaz

  Self, Vortex, Bitterness

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

  Julianna Margulies

  Running, Silly, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• I was offered more work after the Oscar. When I was younger, I would take whatever I was offered because it was money and work and experience. In a way, choosing is the hard part. I know that's a luxury problem, but it's true. I try to go where passion takes me.

  Rachel Weisz

  Passion, Luxury, Trying

  Source: deadline.com

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• People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar, but it's up to you what choices you make.

  Rachel Weisz

  Believe, People, Choices

  Source: deadline.com

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• I was amazed to go Oscar and win it. It was fantastic getting up on the stage there and looking down. I thought, "That guy looks like Steve Martin, and that guy's like Arnold Schwarzenegger." But it was Steve Martin, and it was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then they have this terrible kind of conveyor belt backstage - literally - where they take you to this big hangar where the world's press are gathered, and they make you stand on a stage, and they introduce you.

  Peter Capaldi

  Winning, Guy, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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