Oscar Quotes

• Wow, a boomerang!! Oscar will love this.....

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Love
  • Oscar
  • Boomerang

• I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I'd like to win an Oscar.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Win
  • Oscar

• I literally don't think about Oscar.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Oscar
  • Literally

• I think I have a better chance at getting an Oscar before a Grammy.

  

  Shad Gregory Moss
  • Chance
  • Before
  • Grammy

• It's an incredible honor, and it's so unlikely. I took a stab at doing this, and it's been extremely well received. ... Phil has gotten an enormous amount of attention, all of it well deserved. I think we've gotten our fair share, and whatever shakes out in terms of Oscar stuff is fine.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Stuff
  • Terms
  • Oscar

• Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Me
  • Say
  • Wrong

• It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Feeling
  • Winning
  • Gold

• It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • English
  • Drummer
  • Oscar

• So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Moving

• The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.

  

  Paul Young Mike and the Mechanics
  • Best
  • Oscar
  • Nomination

• I have an Oscar on my mantel.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Oscar

• I'd like to win an Oscar and then refuse it so I can protest the way they've treated Marlon Brando.

  

  Michael Horse
  • Win
  • Oscar
  • Marlon Brando

• The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Janet Maslin
  • Confused
  • Oscar
  • Nobel Peace Prize

• I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Reason
  • Feel
  • Working

• I find that I'm fighting to keep my energy and my passion centered on the work and not on "Will this get me an Oscar?" - which is the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in looking at a role that way. That's not what I ever did, and it's not how I can continue to do my work.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Start
  • I Feel
  • Personal Life

• [To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

  

  Anna Magnani
  • Up
  • Kill
  • Reporter

• You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Oscar
  • Awarded
  • The Untouchables

• If you buy a lottery ticket, you really don't expect to win. However, if you do win, it's a different story. The same is true about getting an Oscar. Of course I knew I was nominated, but I never expected my name to be called. When it was, I'm still at a loss to describe the feelings that I experienced.

  

  George Chakiris
  • Expect
  • Oscar
  • Lottery ticket

• It would be kind of ill to see Rachel McAdams win an Oscar for Spotlight - I don't think people give her credit for her range, she started in a kind of character with younger demographic-aged films and really made a push to be taken more seriously and got a lot of opportunities and knocked it out the park. But I feel like Jennifer Jason Leigh deserves one, maybe not just for Hateful Eight but for [Anomalisa] and everything. Like, I tried to watch Adaption again, that's rough!

  

  Bun B
  • People
  • Win
  • Credit

• Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

  

  Marcello Mastroianni
  • Women
  • Real
  • Trouble

• Will this coffee get me an Oscar?

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Coffee
  • Get
  • Oscar

• Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than when he was called up - Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson. You see what kind of talent we had, and guys in the majors knew it too.

  

  Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
  • Majors
  • Gibson
  • Willie

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