Academy Awards Quotes - Page 2

• Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Dad, Awards, Attention

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• I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

  Pat Morita

  Real, Kids, Awards

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• Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

  Sandra Bullock

  Oscars, Acceptance Speech

  Oscar Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Acceptance Speech, delivered 7 March 2010

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  It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Gratitude, Facts, Reciprocate

  Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.

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• Naturally, I was thrilled but being the first year, the Academy Awards had no background or tradition, and it naturally didn’t mean what it does now. Had I known then what it would come to mean in the next few years, I’m sure I’d have been overwhelmed. At the time, I think I was more thrilled over meeting Douglas Fairbanks.

  Janet Gaynor

  Mean, Thinking, Awards

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Awards, People

  "Joan Rivers: the best of her career in clips and quotes" by Lilah Raptopoulos, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2014.

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• The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

  George C. Scott

  Awards, Two, Meat

  "Oscar no-shows: 9 Hollywood stars who snubbed the Academy Awards" by Gina Vivinetto, www.today.com. February 21, 2017.

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• I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

  Rachael Taylor

  Awards, Afterlife, Office

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Father, Awards, Pigs

  "Oscars: As It Happened". Oscar Acceptance Speech, www.empireonline.com. February 28, 2011.

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• If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

  Dana Hill

  Mean, Cutting, Winning

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• I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

  Charlize Theron

  Awards, Serious, Winner

  Source: collider.com

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• 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 should have.'

  Morgan Freeman

  Awards, Should Have, People

  "Morgan Freeman Talks Lucky Number Slevin". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. March 31, 2006.

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• I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

  Ansel Elgort

  Taken, Awards, Careers

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• An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Dream, Awards, Nominations

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

  Todd Phillips

  Writing, Awards, Academy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

  Kevin Smith

  Winning, Awards, Film

  "On Twitter, filmmaker Kevin Smith is a superstar". Interview with Erin Biba, www.wired.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

  Jon Stewart

  Awards, Host, Charm

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

  Steven Wright

  Awards, Tv Shows, Giving

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• people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cousin, Mean, Thinking

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• Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.

  Bob Hope

  Awards, House, Welcome

  "Oscar host Alec Baldwin may also be nominee" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 30, 2009.

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• It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death?

  Martin Scorsese

  Winning, Sight, Awards

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• 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

  Bill Murray

  Groundhog Day, Awards, Scripts

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• Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth) can be. Let me tell you, it is. It's brutal sometimes! But, if I did it, ANYONE can do it. I mean, I always knew I was meant to do something really BIG in life, and now I know that this was it. Screw winning an Academy Award someday ... I GAVE BIRTH

  Jenny McCarthy

  Mother, Pregnancy, Mean

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

  Luise Rainer

  Awards, Thirds, Academy

  "Winning an Oscar: Blessing or Curse?" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. March 3, 2006.

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• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  Rachael Taylor

  Winning, Awards, Looks

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