Actors Quote by Jay Leno

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of…

— Mark Rydell

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

— Ron Fournier

I'm a member of BAFTA, so I vote in all the films that come up for the Academy Awards.

— Ray Fearon

Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins is an event where actors and actresses will come out, and I give all credit to Oscar…

— Bernard Hopkins

It may sound cliché, but it really was an honor to be nominated. As an actor, nothing is guaranteed.

— Hosea Chanchez

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

— Rita Hayworth

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

— Bob Hope

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

— Viggo Mortensen

Some of the greatest directors never got an Oscar, like Kubrick, or Hitchcock. For me, personally, I think the body of work is more…

— Marc Forster

I stand on the shoulders of some unbelievable talent. Graham Greene and chief Dan George have been nominated for their performances by the Academy.…

— Lily Gladstone

That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!

— Bette Midler

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