Oscars Quotes · Page 3

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.

— Jean Simmons

I really don't think about the Oscars.

— James Newton Howard

I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

— Nicole Richie

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

— Martin Scorsese

I'd love to see a woman host the Oscars.

— Betty Gabriel

This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.

— Grace Kelly

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

— Anonymous

My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this.

— Shaquille O'Neal

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.

— Paul Young

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Even if the Tonys aren't as glitzy as the Oscars, being a part of the ceremony is no less exciting.

— Essie Davis

For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green

— Bob Hope

I watch the Oscars in my pajamas like everybody else.

— Laurie Metcalf

Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.

— Neil Patrick Harris

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

— Whoopi Goldberg

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

— Lee Grant

I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take…

— A. R. Rahman

There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very…

— Jon Gordon

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and…

— Ellen Burstyn

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on…

— Bruce Vilanch

Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors.

— Nell Scovell

The one place you don't want to wear shorts is any major awards show. You can wear them to the Teen Choice…

— Peter Som

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something…

— Benicio Del Toro

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

— Anonymous

I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.…

— Billy Eichner

I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember…

— Anna Held

I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show . . . What straight black man sits there and watches…

— Chris Rock

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff…

— Sebastian Horsley

For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I…

— Susanne Bier

When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim…

— Alexander Payne

'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film…

— Russell Crowe

I interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared…

— Eric Idle

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…

— Harold Bloom

The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled…

— Caitlin Moran

“For one thing, she hadn't exactly chosen a field; although she has since childhood imagined picking up her Oscar, the category has…

— Elizabeth Crane

I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want…

— Thomas Hampson

I hate The Oscars. The Oscars make me want to throw things at the TV. In the ancient history of The Oscars,…

— Joe Bob Briggs

“The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the…

— Dick Cavett

A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed…

— Lisa Kleypas

Sadly most films only get exposure if they win an award or were in a festival, which is really difficult because those…

— Kate del Castillo