Academy Quote by Dustin Hoffman Download Open image “The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.” — Dustin Hoffman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academy Academy award Academy awards Awards Awards Obscene Beauty Beauty contest Contests Dirty Obscene Obscene Dirty Oscar
The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married -… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
The awards thing is tricky to understand because its about momentum and a general opinion on whats been great. I dont know if you… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
The reality of producing the Oscars is that it's a blood sport. With social media, everyone has a chance to voice their opinions. You… — Craig Zadan Copy Share Image
Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“(In response to the question: What is your least favorite word?) It's three words that we usually use as one: woulda, shoulda, coulda. That… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you're a star and you've spent most of… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I say go, go, be led. particularly If you're in your twenties, which I suspect a lot of you are in. I tell my… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.'… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Step Up Academy offers a conducive, encouraging, comfortable environment for children to step up their learning and achieve success. Our students progress within the… — Kerthiga Manokumar Copy Share Image
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
