Hollywood Quote by David Letterman

The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.

— Nick Hornby

Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

— Rita Hayworth

Every actor wants to win an Oscar.

— Bruno Ganz

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for…

— Javier Bardem

I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.

— Bob Hope

I know when it comes to TV, the writer is king, but to me, the filmmaker is king.

— Sam Esmail

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

— Jean Simmons

Hollywood - that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

— Shirley Knight

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

— Jerry Della Femina

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life…

— Sophia Loren

“If you can get past those awful idiot faces on the bleachers outside the theater without a sense of the collapse of human intelligence,…

— Raymond Chandler

I always remind people why The Oscars got started in 1928: It was an effort by the studios to suppress the unions. They started…

— Joe Bob Briggs