Oscar Quotes

284 Oscar quotes by 238 unique authors

I never won an Oscar... and the Oscars never won Irene Papas — Irene Papas
I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored … and I'm gonna put [my Oscar] in my hand… — Quvenzhane Wallis
I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama. — Phoebe Tonkin
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the… — Harold Bloom
I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them… — Ice Cube
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix. — Alexander Woollcott
'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a… — Russell Crowe
But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world are liars. They… — Tucker Max
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that… — Malcolm Muggeridge
When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson… — Barney Kessel
Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what… — Oscar Pistorius
For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar. — Daniela Pestova
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but… — Emma Goldman
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century — Max Beerbohm
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of… — Brander Matthews
It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the… — Michel Hazanavicius
Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar — Dean Cavanagh
I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar. — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a… — Rudolph A. Marcus
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest
Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an Oscar and they… — Zach Braff
Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're… — John Wayne
There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar. — Ennio Morricone
I have also heard that GM Oscar Panno said that -whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are available for said… — Unknown Author
In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was affable, kind, extremely… — Emilie Schindler

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