Am Quote by Ariana DeBose

Its rare to see a proud and out LGBT person win an Oscar in a lead or supporting actor role.

— Karamo Brown

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.

— Whoopi Goldberg

I didn't set out to win an Oscar, of course, but to be in this conversation, it's somehow an honour and a strange life…

— Lee Isaac Chung

White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played…

— Eddie Murphy

If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.

— Ellen DeGeneres

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

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.

— Jean Simmons

I deserve an oscar for the ammount of times I faked it with you

— Green Monk

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

— Carol Kane

I'm incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar.

— Yance Ford

A lot of young Latino actors have said to me, 'Why can't we get an Oscar? Why can't we be nominated?' And the terrible…

— Rita Moreno

There was a time in the '90s where, as an African-American man, you had to be a misogynistic R&B star or a rapper, and…

— Billy Porter