Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe. — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy Award voter with a tampon in her purse. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me. — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards. — Andrea Martin Copy Share Image
After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
“Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right,… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
“I think the hardest thing about writing is writing." [Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting.… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you, not me, not… — Sue Mengers Copy Share Image
Ive learned that its impossible to laugh when your much closer to crying, that tears can be hidden if you try, and… — Ana Copy Share Image
I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the… — Harvey Weinstein 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
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
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 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
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 had no idea that such a thing could happen. It never occurred to me.My son told me. He called me and… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
“Put Lenin in a tuxedo and use him as a seat filler at the Academy Awards. At the Oscar ceremonies they have… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I'm a member of BAFTA, so I vote in all the films that come up for the Academy Awards. — Ray Fearon Copy Share Image
I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my… — Luise Rainer Copy Share Image
I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.' — George Chakiris Copy Share Image
For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me, — Luise Rainer Copy Share Image
A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?'… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!' — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and… — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
Surprise! Surprise! An Academy Award nomination and suddenly you're outed? Did I mind? Oh, very, very much. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. — George C. Scott Copy Share Image
I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
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