Oscars Quotes - Page 15

• I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.

  Colin Callender

  Writing, Tvs, England

  Source: deadline.com

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• The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.

  Dick Cavett

  Hunting, Animal, Winning

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Witty, Buddhist, Smart

  Aperture Magazine, 1999.

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• I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

  Steven Spielberg

  Fun, Believe, Winning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

  Rita Hayworth

  Directors, Hollywood, Needs

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

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• Every generation has their own great players. Who's to say that anyone's better than Cheryl Miller or Nancy Lieberman? Whose anyone to say Michael Jordan is better than Oscar Robertson or Magic Johnson or Larry Bird? Every generation has its great player. There's never going to be one player that's so above and beyond anyone else.

  Diana Taurasi

  Player, Bird, Magic

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• When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.

  Brenda Fricker

  Lying, Winning, Airports

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• Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card.

  Robin Williams

  Giving, Cards, Green

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• The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Janet Maslin

  Confused, Nobel Peace Prize, Has Beens

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• To come to the Oscars for the first time and be seven months pregnant is quite a thing!

  Rachel Weisz

  Seven Months, Firsts, First Time

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• The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

  Deniz Gamze Erguven

  Country, Directors, Language

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.

  Mara Wilson

  Girly, Clothes, Reincarnation

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• I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one.

  Cameron Diaz

  Dark, Thinking, Brooding

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• When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

  Juliette Binoche

  Real, Real Work, Get Back

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• I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

  Juliette Binoche

  Thinking, Careers, Want

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• I've never been to the Oscars, but if I was ever invited to the Oscars, I would have this weird paranoia of terrorism. It just feels like The Poseidon Adventure, everyone in their tuxes. Somehow, I feel like the whole time I would be looking for where the nearest exit was, and in a cold sweat about some kind of man-made disaster, like a terrorist strike or something. It seems like such a scary, claustrophobic proposition.

  Mike White

  Adventure, Men, Sweat

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• When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas. He knew them only 'in Braille' - the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial - after a life like that?

  Quentin Crisp

  Plato, Boys, Names

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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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• They almost had to cancel the Oscars tonight because all of the designers and stylists are still in line in San Francisco trying to marry one another.

  Joan Rivers

  San Francisco, Trying, Tonight

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• The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

  Oscar Wilde

  Keys, Add, Wilde

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• There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Males, Wilde

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• Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

  Nora Ephron

  Movie, Women, Years

  "Nora Ephron (1941-2012): An appreciation" by Ty Burr, www.boston.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don't think that's why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It's also having a good Oscar campaign.

  Mick Jagger

  Winning, Thinking, Campaigns

  "Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

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• I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being an actor. We give Oscars to people and it's like, 'Aw, this person is the greatest person on earth', but being an actor is pretty easy in comparison to stand-up comedy. It's no surprise that several stand-up comics have gone on to become great actors. I don't know any great actors that have gone on to become great stand-up comics.

  Jim Jefferies

  Giving, People, Gone

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.

  George Clooney

  Weekend, Winning, Awards

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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