Oscars Quotes - Page 4

• The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.

  Roger Ebert

  Fun, Thumbs, Golden

  "A Film Critic's Windy City Home". Interview with Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. February 13, 2005.

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• I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's a myth that you win an Oscar and you get more opportunities, and this doesn't just go for me.

  Halle Berry

  Sexy, Thinking, Winning

  "Anything to Do With Taking Off Your Clothes Comes My Way". Evening Standard, May 22, 2006.

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• I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar.

  Halle Berry

  Fun, Careers, Challenges

  "Berry Dares to Leave Drama Queen Behind Her". The Courier-Post, April 15, 2007.

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• Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don't think that's why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It's also having a good Oscar campaign.

  Mick Jagger

  Winning, Thinking, Campaigns

  "Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

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• It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Giving, Would Be, Nobel Peace Prize

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• The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

  Joe Orton

  Welfare, Wilde, States

  Joe Orton (1998). “The Visitors: Fred and Madge : Two Plays”, p.13, Grove Press

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• When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

  Camille Paglia

  Doubt, Wilde, When In Doubt

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.10, Vintage

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• Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

  Ada Leverson

  Beautiful, Book, Saws

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• Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see. Eiko Ishioka's costume designs alone deserve an Oscar nomination. "They weren't at all historically accurate," grumbled a woman in the elevator after the sneak preview, as if lots of documentation exists about the wardrobes of the gods. She added: "I guess that's what we deserve for using free tickets we got at a Blackhawks game.

  Roger Ebert

  Games, Design, Doubt

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.276, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

  Gagan Narang

  Sports, Government, Games

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• Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Dream, Fate, Night

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• I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

  John Ford

  War, Taken, Fishing

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

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• When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

  Julie Harris

  Black And White, Luck, Looks

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• I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Life, Thinking, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.

  Billy Rose

  War, Men, Thinking

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• If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

  Roger Ebert

  Locks, Nominations, Ifs

  Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.816, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Truly saddened by the loss of one of the greatest fashion icons of all time. Oscar de la Renta will be greatly missed.

  Ivanka Trump

  Fashion, Loss, Icons

  Twitter post from Oct 20, 2014

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• It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

  Bruce Davison

  People, Healthy, Suffering

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• I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple

  Neil Simon

  Couple, Meat, Sandwiches

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• Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.

  Luis Bunuel

  Receiving, Disgusting

  "Friday on your mind" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.

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• Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton

  Lou Lumenick

  Potters, Harry Potter Series, Mainstream

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• I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

  Robert Osborne

  Awards, Good Movie, Enthusiastic

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• They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Running, New York, Theatre

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

  Chris Wedge

  Winning, Office, Months

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

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• Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Gloves, Golden, Fantastic

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