My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.' — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that,… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
'Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academy Awards, and it would never… — Kevin Connolly Copy Share Image
At one point, I was greenlighting films and scripts that shouldn't have been made based on the fact that they had that… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“As Frances Marion rose to accept the Academy Award for Screenwriting for her original story The Big House, she became the first… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
When we get to A League Of Their Own, I have to be Geena Davis' little sister who wants to be like… — Lori Petty Copy Share Image
I had success as an actor relatively early. When I was 22, I got nominated for an Academy Award for The Last… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I just want to play happy people. I'm a commercial kind of gal, and yeah, I would love to do a Monster,… — Katherine Heigl Copy Share Image
In high school and college, I'd set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit… — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award,… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
“In 1960, Joy wrote of her experiences raising Elsa in the bestselling book Born Free which was adapted into an Academy award-winning… — Joy Adamson Copy Share Image
Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're… — Randy Thom Copy Share Image
I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until… — Ansel Elgort Copy Share Image
My celebrity crush is Eva Mendes. I think she is gorgeous and shes got a great personality. I also got really star-struck… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more… — Phil LaMarr Copy Share Image
The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
As an actress, you always dream of getting Emmys or Academy awards, but I never dreamed of getting an award that is… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic,… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that.… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
I realize we're not curing diseases with 'iCarly,' and we're not doing Shakespeare. It's not an Academy Award-winning film, but it has… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't… — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will… — Harvey Korman Copy Share Image
I remember watching Quentin Tarantino accept an Academy Award for screenwriting for 'Pulp Fiction.' If I'd known then that 15 years later… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
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