Oscars Quotes · Page 2

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won…

— Cliff Robertson

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

— Nicolas Cage

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need…

— Jeff Daniels

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

— Andreja Pejic

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an…

— George C. Scott

Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course,…

— Jay Leno

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

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar...…

— Alan Dershowitz

I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid…

— Joan Fontaine

There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of…

— Brander Matthews

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

— Elliott Smith

When Marlee [Matlin] won her Oscar, she said, "and I just want to thank my parents." When I was saying those words…

— Jack Jason

As part of my job, I got malaria really badly and was put in intensive care, and I had a hallucination because…

— Rebel Wilson

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

— Quvenzhane Wallis

The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent…

— Julie Delpy

If every witty thing that's said was true, Oscar Wilde, the world would worship You!

— Michael R. Burch

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you…

— Anna Magnani

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

— Ben Whishaw

Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's…

— Kelly Marcel

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

— Brett Ratner

'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

— Michael Moore

The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just…

— Common

At the Emmys, you've got a bunch of people who are used to being on TV on TV. You don't have that…

— Jimmy Kimmel

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

— Norman Jewison