Academy Awards Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

  Edward Norton

  Couple, Thinking, Awards

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

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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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• Even Arnold's adviser says he was shocked by his decision to run. I mean, his people were backstage that night and they had no idea. He totally fooled them. Who knew Arnold was that good of an actor? If he had done that in a movie, he'd have an Academy Award by now.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Mean, Night

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

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Dream, Awards, Nominations

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• You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Awards, Watches

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• The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

  Helen Hunt

  Awards, Earthquakes, Oscars

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• I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

  Laraine Day

  Winning, Awards, Academy

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• Now there are reports that Osama bin Laden would like to commit suicide on television. This is the kind of lead-in I have been praying for every since I came to CBS. Bin Laden is planning a televised suicide or, as I call it, hosting the Academy Awards.

  David Letterman

  Suicide, Awards, Television

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• It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

  Michael Caine

  Winning, Awards, Careers

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• I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Awards, People, Honor

  "Oscar Nominees Lunch With Academy, Party at THR Event as Final Voting Approaches" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 03, 2015.

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• I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

  Michael Caine

  Awards, House, Cider

  "Michael Caine: 'I Spent My Life Doing Something That I Love'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, peconicpublicbroadcasting.org. May 30, 2013.

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• At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

  Bob Hope

  Thinking, Awards, Acting

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• I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

  William Peter Blatty

  Thinking, Awards, Watches

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• Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Awards, Video, Firsts

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• It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

  Adrien Brody

  Life Changing, Winning, Men

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

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• Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Awards, Wife

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• I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

  Robert Osborne

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

  Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

  Robert Osborne

  Awards, Good Movie, Oscars

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• I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

  Joanne Woodward

  Believe, Awards, Wish

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

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• There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

  Lili Taylor

  Awards, Decision, Vision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My son was staying with me, and we got up to watch it, just before they announced supporting actress, he came up and put his arm around me. I think it was like, 'Either way, mom, I still love you.' But then it was funny because I saw it. I saw my picture, and I heard them announce it, but I had to ask him, 'Did I really see that?' I wasn't sure I was seeing it, but he assured me that yes, I was nominated for the Academy Award. We just sort of cried a little bit.

  June Squibb

  Mom, Love You, Son

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• Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

  Harvey Korman

  Men, Awards, Actors

  "Fictional character: Hedley Lamarr". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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