Oscars Quotes · Page 4

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

— Oscar Wilde

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

— Tim Robbins

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

— Mira Sorvino

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

— Jerry Seinfeld

That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!

— Bette Midler

To come to the Oscars for the first time and be seven months pregnant is quite a thing!

— Rachel Weisz

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.

— Paul Young

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

— Essie Davis

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an…

— Robin Williams

My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people…

— Zendaya

I'm very happy that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top…

— Suhasini Maniratnam

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff…

— Al Pacino

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do.…

— Perry Brass

My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us,…

— A. R. Rahman

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

— Frank Capra

Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist…

— Elizabeth Taylor

I just remember Kathy Bates getting on the stage and "The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins." I looked around, because I really…

— Anthony Hopkins

Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured…

— Kevin Sessums

I think for most actors, because we sort of have to tell ourselves this, we always say, 'Oh, it doesn't mean anything…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

How are people who are young and look like Oscar [Grant] portrayed in the media? You gotta think about that. And somebody…

— Michael B. Jordan

I've always taken a lot of cues from comedy minds. The guy that discovered me in the very beginning was Joseph Cates.…

— David Copperfield

I will never do nudity. I don't care how dark and intellectual the role could be, you know...I don't care if I…

— Jessica Simpson

The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the…

— Taylor Sheridan

I've been nominated four times, never won. And the whole world is going, 'Why hasn't Winslet won one?' That's why I'm doing…

— Ricky Gervais

I've never been to the Oscars, but if I was ever invited to the Oscars, I would have this weird paranoia of…

— Mike White

My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I…

— Vanessa Redgrave

You know, "Moonlight" deserves best picture [on Oscar]. What I mean by tarnished is the moment - being able to be in…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I…

— Eddie Murphy

Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar…

— Kevin Sessums

Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already…

— John Patrick Shanley

Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with…

— Margaret Atwood

Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see. Eiko Ishioka's costume designs alone deserve an Oscar nomination. "They…

— Roger Ebert

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

My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me.

— Ashley Madekwe

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 remember crying my eyes out when I watched the end of the Lion King

— Dwayne Johnson

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

— Lee Grant

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Janet Maslin