Oscars Quotes - Page 10

• When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.

  Brenda Fricker

  Lying, Winning, Airports

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

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• I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set.

  Hugh Jackman

  Morning, Goes On, Film

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• It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Winning, Dying, Hollywood

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• Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

  Daryl Hannah

  Stupid, Party, Silly

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• Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.

  Peter Berg

  America, Voting, Doe

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• The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

  Kathy Bates

  People, Salary, Privacy

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

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• Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he's gonna be back bigger and stronger.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Guy, Stronger

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• Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Sorry, Hollywood, Tonight

  "Oscars 2015: Best & Worst Political Moments" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.

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• If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you.

  J.K. Simmons

  Two, Long, Parent

  J.K. Simmons' Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2015.

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• American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Morning, Soldier, Snipers

  "Neil Patrick Harris's jokes on whiteness of Oscars unsettle some viewers" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2015.

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• This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Lovely, Spoons, Next

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• We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Silence, Needs, Withdrawal

  "Oscars 2015 Speeches: The Winners of the Winners" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.

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• He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome... Jason Bateman.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Stars, Children, Jason

  " 'Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry ... brightest': the best Oscars 2015 quotes" by Lanre Bakare, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2015.

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• Oh sure, now you like him [after the audience applaud David Oyelowo].

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Audience

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• [Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Party, Awards, Guy

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• I remember crying my eyes out when I watched the end of the Lion King

  Dwayne Johnson

  Kings, Eye, Lion King

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• They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend.

  Meryl Streep

  Sadness, Thinking, Laughing

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• We don't stand here alone, it's possible through the great organisations that support us. The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed aren't only a threat to privacy but to democracy, when the most important decisions made affect all of us. Thank you to Edward Snowden. I share this with Glenn Greenwald and other journalists who are exposing truth.

  Laura Poitras

  Decision, Support, Democracy

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• The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Treason, Snowden, Subjects

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• Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Names, Shows, Show Business

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• Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over. Once a landmark of a divided nation, the spirit of this bridge now for all people regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or social status. This bridge was built on hope and welded with compassion. Common

  John Legend

  Kings, Compassion, Race

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• I can't believe 50 years have gone by since that film was released. I blinked and suddenly here I am. We all really felt blessed and as for me; how lucky can a girl get. Great music does more than enhance a film, it cements our memories in the film going experience.

  Julie Andrews

  Girl, Memories, Believe

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• When I was 16 years old I tried to kill myself because I felt different and that I didn't belong. Now I'm here, and I want this moment to be for that kid who feels weird or different. Stay weird, stay different.

  Graham Moore

  Kids, Years, Different

  "Oscars 2015 Speeches: The Winners of the Winners" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.

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• I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Men, Hands, Feet

  "Oscars 2015: Read Stephen Hawking's Touching Words for Winner Eddie Redmayne" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2015.

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• I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

  Julianne Moore

  Husband, Mean, Winning

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