Oscars Quotes
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That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!
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I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and...and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'
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I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.
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I even had success with commercials, which is strange, because out of the six ideas, two won the platinum Minerva in France - it's the Oscar for their commercials. One was about the Renault diesel and the other about the regular Renault.
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If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
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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 my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.
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If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.
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I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.
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You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.
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I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.
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By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?
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You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.
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Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.
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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.
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Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10.
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I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.
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The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.
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The Oscars are not something I watch anyway.
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Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.
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The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.
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I think most people have that out-of-body experience when they win the Oscar.
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The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.
