Oscars Quotes

• I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Littles, Tomorrow, Scream

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• She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

  Jamie Foxx

  I Love You, Dream, Sleep

  Jamie Foxx' Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 27, 2005.

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• Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer.

  John Wayne

  Weather, Littles, Firsts

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• Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

  Robin Williams

  Father, Memorable, Men

  "Flashback: Robin Williams’ 1998 Oscar Acceptance Speech" by David Humphreys, etcanada.com. August 12, 2014.

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• Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

  Chris Rock

  Awards, Rocks, Hollywood

  "For Better Or Worse, Chris Rock Made The Oscars As Black As He Possibly Could". "All Things Considered" with Eric Deggans, www.npr.org. February 29, 2016.

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• You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

  Christopher Plummer

  Two, Years, Darling

  "Nostalgic night for Academy Awards". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2012.

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

  Sandra Bullock

  Acceptance Speech, Academy Awards

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

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• I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

  Sally Field

  Careers, Firsts, Facts

  Speech accepting Academy Award for Best Actress, Hollywood, Cal., 25 Mar. 1985.

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• I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

  Hilary Swank

  Girl, Dream, Parks

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

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• I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

  Jack Nicholson

  Nuts, Prove, Academy

  Jack Nicholson's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 29, 1976.

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• I just want to thank everybody I have ever met in my entire life.

  Kim Basinger

  Want, Mets

  Kim Basinger's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 23, 1998.

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• I am king of the world!

  James Cameron

  Kings, World

  1998 Accepting his Best Director Oscar for Titanic (1997), 23 Mar, an allusion to a line inTitanic.

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• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

  Oscar Wilde

  Imagination Creativity, Consistency, Lasts

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946)

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

  Chris Rock

  Lasts, Welcome

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• I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Competition, Acting

  "Best Actress 2016: who are the Oscar nominees?". Article by Brie Larson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 29, 2016.

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• This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

  Halle Berry

  Doors, Tonight, Chance

  Halle Berry's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 24, 2002.

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• Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891).Wilde used the same words in A Woman of No Importance (1893).

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• Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

  Kathy Bates

  Wings, Agents, Given

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• When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

  Woody Allen

  Business, Want, Might

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• I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.

  Queen Latifah

  Believe, Kids, Opportunity

  "Queen Latifah Talks Ice Age: The Meltdown". Interview With Brian B., movieweb.com. March 29, 2006.

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• To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

  Peter Jackson

  Careers, Doubt, Would Be

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

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• This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

  Roberto Benigni

  Mistake, Used, Terrible

  Roberto Benigni's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1999.

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• The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

  Frank Capra

  World, Public Relations, Valuable

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Trying, Credit, Assuming

  "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature" l. 10 (1928)

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