Oscars Quotes - Page 14

• As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Boys, Giving, Theatre

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• Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'

  Jay Leno

  Mass Destruction, Law, Rivers

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• It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.

  Shirley Horn

  Rachmaninoff

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• I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

  Steve Zahn

  Campaigns, Care, Stills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.

  Gene Lees

  Years, Today, Jazz

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• Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

  Count Basie

  Play, Ivory, Boxes

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• Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

  Herbie Hancock

  Today, Jazz, Influence

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• Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

  Benny Carter

  Piano, House, Want

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• One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

  Marian McPartland

  Men, Piano, Should

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• The one place you don't want to wear shorts is any major awards show. You can wear them to the Teen Choice or Kids' Choice awards, but not the Oscars or the Emmys.

  Peter Som

  Kids, Awards, Choices

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• The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and wait for it.

  Terrence Howard

  Dream, Believe, Dark

  "Showbiz Tonight" with A.J. Hammer and Brooke Anderson, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2006.

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• To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.

  Chris Pratt

  Sweet, Goal, Able

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

  Gagan Narang

  Sports, Government, Games

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• Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Two, Three, Moments

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• I only wanna go up the steps toward a different level of stardom. The BET Awards was one of those steps, the VMAs was another huge step. And the next step, eventually, hopefully, would be the Oscars.

  Kevin Hart

  Awards, Next, Steps

  "Kevin Hart: the Realist Husband of Hollywood". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I don't like ordinary girls. But a girl who would kill a guy to make him hers and then kiss his still-warm lips... a girl like Oscar Wilde's Salome They drive me crazy. Like Kiyohime turning into a snake to chase her man or the grocery girl Oshichi who set fire to a building just to see hers one more time. I want to be loved like that be obsessed over be hated.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Girl, Crazy, Kissing

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• The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.

  Roger Ebert

  Fun, Thumbs, Golden

  "A Film Critic's Windy City Home". Interview with Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. February 13, 2005.

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• Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see. Eiko Ishioka's costume designs alone deserve an Oscar nomination. "They weren't at all historically accurate," grumbled a woman in the elevator after the sneak preview, as if lots of documentation exists about the wardrobes of the gods. She added: "I guess that's what we deserve for using free tickets we got at a Blackhawks game.

  Roger Ebert

  Games, Design, Doubt

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.276, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

  Ada Leverson

  Beautiful, Book, Saws

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• When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

  Camille Paglia

  Doubt, Wilde, When In Doubt

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.10, Vintage

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• The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

  Joe Orton

  Welfare, Wilde, States

  Joe Orton (1998). “The Visitors: Fred and Madge : Two Plays”, p.13, Grove Press

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• It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Giving, Would Be, Nobel Peace Prize

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• I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar.

  Halle Berry

  Fun, Careers, Challenges

  "Berry Dares to Leave Drama Queen Behind Her". The Courier-Post, April 15, 2007.

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• I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's a myth that you win an Oscar and you get more opportunities, and this doesn't just go for me.

  Halle Berry

  Sexy, Thinking, Winning

  "Anything to Do With Taking Off Your Clothes Comes My Way". Evening Standard, May 22, 2006.

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• I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.

  Anna Held

  Life, Awards, Tears

  "Luise Rainer, double Oscar winner, dies aged 104". www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.

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