Oscars Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the US] I hope they can be treated with respect of the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Government, Years, Two

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• Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Condom, Enjoy

  "Oscars 2015: The Winners' Reactions" by Austin Siegemund-Broka, Carolyn Giardina, Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.

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• Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't win.

  David Brooks

  Winning, Average, Years

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• Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

  Faye Dunaway

  Differences, Effort, Records

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• Will this coffee get me an Oscar?

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Coffee

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• There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.

  Jon Gordon

  Blue, People, Hearing

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• Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Wine, Mean

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• If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Gay, Thinking, Race

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• I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

  John Ford

  War, Taken, Fishing

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

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• My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough.

  Zendaya

  Light, Hair, Color

  Zendaya @Zendaya, twitter.com. February 23, 2015.

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• A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Guy, Waiting, Sound

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

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• People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

  Judi Dench

  Winning, Thinking, People

  "Judi Dench Press Conference at the 2004 Taormina BNL Filmfest". www.filmscouts.com. 2004.

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• The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and that history extends back years--centuries, even--before Oscar de la Renta's 2002 collection.

  Tim Gunn

  Color, Years, Texture

  Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun (2013). “Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.

  Peter Mullan

  Cutting, Winning, Thinking

  "NEDS’ Director Peter Mullan Almost Helmed ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ (Until He Botched The Pitch)". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. April 27, 2011.

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• It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.

  Tobey Maguire

  Golden, Globes

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• I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Dream, School, Roles

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• Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

  Julia Stiles

  Winning, Roles, Women Leadership

  "Julia Stiles has nothing to fear from Dexter ... she's met the Loose Women". Interview with Eleanor Morgan, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• For any of you who don't know, the Golden Globes are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker, and more easily bought.

  Ricky Gervais

  Golden, Kim, Globes

  "Scoring Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes Hit List". Ricky Gervais' speech as host at the 69th Golden Globe Awards, www.tv.com. January 15, 2012.

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• I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

  William H. Macy

  Real

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• Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Gloves, Golden, Fantastic

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• You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

  Chris Wedge

  Winning, Office, Months

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

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• They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Running, New York, Theatre

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

  Julie Harris

  Black And White, Luck, Looks

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