Oscars Quotes - Page 15

• Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.

  Harold Bloom

  Art, Reading, Sublime

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Daryl Hannah

  Stupid, Party, Silly

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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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• 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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• Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what makes an athlete great. It's too easy to credit Pistorius' success to technology. Through birth or circumstance, some are given certain gifts, but it's what one does with those gifts, the hours devoted to training, the desire to be the best, that is at the true heart of a champion.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Heart, Athlete, Technology

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• 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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• 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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• I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored … and I'm gonna put [my Oscar] in my hand and kiss it every night before I go to sleep.

  Quvenzhane Wallis

  Dog, Sleep, Kissing

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• I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

  Phoebe Tonkin

  Drama, Serious, Watches

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

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Treason, Snowden, Subjects

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

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Audience

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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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• The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

  Larry Wilmore

  White, Nominations, Jury

  "'The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore' Debuts In Slot Vacated By Stephen Colbert". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 20, 2015.

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• When A R Rahman won the Oscars, I had a dream of being able to congratulate him in person. This dream is now a reality thanks to Airtel digital TV. This day will forever remain truly unforgettable.

  Mohammed Rafi

  Dream, Reality, Forever

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• It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

  Justin Theroux

  Winning, Wife, Car

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

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