Oscars Quotes
356 quotes by 282 authors
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Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben…
— Neil Patrick Harris
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Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over. Once a landmark…
— John Legend
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I can't believe 50 years have gone by since that film was released. I blinked and suddenly here I am. We all really felt blessed…
— Julie Andrews
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I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs…
— Eddie Redmayne
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I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my…
— Julianne Moore
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Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the…
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't…
— David Brooks
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Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that…
— Faye Dunaway
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Will this coffee get me an Oscar?
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing…
— Marilyn Monroe
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Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCaprio came…
— Helen Mirren
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Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you…
— Stephen Fry
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If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.
— Frank Capra
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I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war…
— John Ford
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My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that…
— Zendaya
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A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.
— Nicole Ari Parker
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People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
— Judi Dench
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The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and…
— Tim Gunn
Who Wrote These Oscars Quotes
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