Oscars Quotes - Page 6

• I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.

  Peter Berg

  Winning, Men, Musician

  "Why Did You Cast A Massive Music Superstar In What Amounts To A Run-And-Gun Supporting Role?" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 17, 2012.

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• The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

  Mira Sorvino

  Adjectives, Used, Bigs

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• I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Thinking, Giving, Kind

  "Benicio del Toro Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 6, 2010.

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• I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Racist

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• My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

  Beau Bridges

  Brother, Years, Stories

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

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• When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

  Demian Bichir

  Thinking, Want, Film

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• I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Comedy, Wilde, Physical Comedy

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• It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Couple, Years, Kind

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• A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

  Jim Broadbent

  Artist, Lost, Polish

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• Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

  Jordana Brewster

  Party, Night, Ridiculous

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

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• After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.

  Kathy Bates

  Winning, Scary, Next

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• I'm not going to get an Oscar at 30 - that's done. So I'll think of something else.

  Shirley Henderson

  Thinking, Done

  "Meet the real Shirley Henderson" by Jane Graham, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

  Ben Whishaw

  Ambition, Winning, Lots Of Money

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

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• One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Party, Night, Should Have

  "Gabourey Sidibe, From 'Precious' To 'AfroPop'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 31, 2013.

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• The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.

  Warren Beatty

  Fun, Golden, Globes

  "Golden Globes' tea leaves not easy to read" by Gene Seymour, www.sfgate.com. January 17, 2003.

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• The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Stars, Grateful, Made

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• A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

  Quincy Jones

  Wings, People, Guy

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

  Avery Sunshine

  People, Done, Want

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces, or that you couldn't see so many of Oscar Micheaux's really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in '20s and '30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive.

  Guy Maddin

  Independent, America, Race

  Source: thequietus.com

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• "Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.

  Talib Kweli

  Song, Art, Names

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. The feeling I had listening to his work was almost carnal, so to actually play for him was earth-shattering for me.

  Diana Krall

  Dream, Children, Player

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• I've got a checklist of things I want - including a Brit, a Grammy, an Oscar and a white poodle. Sometimes it gets lonely, and I want a baby too! I'm ticking things off the list.

  Joss Stone

  Baby, Lonely, White

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• Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.

  Ann Coulter

  Night, Cost, Hollywood

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• Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service!

  Billy Crystal

  Community, News, Hours

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2012

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• I had an existential crisis at the Oscars, sitting next to Sean Penn and Meryl Streep, and being like, 'What am I doing here? I don't belong here'. I felt like it could all be taken away.

  Amy Adams

  Taken, Sitting, Next

  'Insecure' Amy Adams, www.femalefirst.co.uk. June 03, 2013.

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