Academy award Quote by George Chakiris

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me,

— Luise Rainer

'West Side Story' was one of the high points of my career. Yet, when I first saw it, I was really disappointed in how…

— Russ Tamblyn

That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.

— Joan Fontaine

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment…

— John Hawkes

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you…

— Morgan Freeman

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It…

— Jennifer Connelly

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from…

— Sharon Stone

I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it.…

— Dustin Hoffman

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any…

— Cate Blanchett

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

— Daniel Woodrell

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

— Todd Phillips

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when…

— Steven Wright