Award Quote by Arjun Mathur

My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this.

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Sally Kellerman

Fact is, I won popularity with my first film itself. Since I got acclaim very early in my career, people weren't that critical of…

— Koel Mallick

It's no accident that all the awards are for smaller movies. When you have $100 million in the budget for a movie, there's something…

— Margot Kidder

I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

— Damien Chazelle

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

— Herbie Hancock

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards…

— Luise Rainer

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

— David Heyman

When I was in my 20s and 30s, there was such a variety and diversity of types of films that you could see. So…

— Karen Allen

I won an award for my debut film. However, my career went up and down after that but I kept getting work. I did…

— Arbaaz Khan

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

— Jennifer Tilly

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It…

— Kate Winslet