Oscars Quotes · Page 12

A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch…

— Viggo Mortensen

The Oscars is the one night of the year when you can see all your favorite stars without having to donate any…

— Jon Stewart

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

— Duncan Roy

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every…

— Yvonne Strahovski

American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning

— Neil Patrick Harris

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

— Truman Capote

Comedians don't get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can't really speak about the Oscar-worthiness…

— Steve Martin

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

Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so…

— George Clooney

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be…

— Whoopi Goldberg

I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'.…

— Lindsay Lohan

I'm pretty sure that wasn't Oscar's first time getting harassed or held-up by authorities. And over time you start to feel some…

— Michael B. Jordan

Oscars isn't about comedy. It's about a bunch of people turning up to see if they have won an award. It's a…

— Ricky Gervais

One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what…

— Bruce Vilanch

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind.…

— Marcia Gay Harden

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

— Billy Rose

Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and…

— John Lydon

I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored … and I'm gonna put [my Oscar]…

— Quvenzhane Wallis

If Milo [Yiannopoulos] were a liberal, he could say whatever and then some, and he wouldn't be addressing Conservative Political Action Conference,…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war…

— Christopher Meloni

One of the best ways to set the mood and overall theme for a party is by using color. I've had a…

— Kendra Scott

I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason…

— Gulzar

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

— Oscar Wilde

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie,…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year?…

— Ang Lee

This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance…

— Ashley Benson

I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!

— Octavia Spencer

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

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

When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

— Helena Bonham Carter

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that…

— Dorothy Parker

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.

— Philippe Falardeau

I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.

— Queen Latifah

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a…

— Oscar Levant

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make…

— Christopher Hitchens

Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar…

— Bernard Hopkins

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten…

— Ernest Borgnine

Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.

— Mara Wilson