Academy Quote by Anna Held

I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that…

— Joanne Woodward

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

— Ernest Borgnine

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

— Brett Ratner

[Winning an Oscar] was a beautiful thing that happened. It is in my house, and every time I look at, I see all the…

— Penelope Cruz

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

— Juliette Binoche

For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and…

— Bruce Davison

What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired…

— Octavia Spencer

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

— Kate Winslet

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

— Sally Kellerman

I feel that there are great minds up there who would like to see what I can do with an Oscar nomination. I guess…

— River Phoenix

I regret not taking my 83-year-old mother to the Oscars the year I won. She deserved the Oscar for giving up so much for…

— Kathy Bates