Oscars Quotes - Page 17

• So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.

  John O'Hara

  Tchaikovsky, Perfect, Syphilis

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• The first thing that your should do when you win an Oscar is thank God. The second thing you should do is forget it. The third thing you should do is call your agent and tell him you need a job.

  Rod Steiger

  Jobs, Winning, Thank God

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• Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to...let it go.

  Pharrell Williams

  Individuality, Let It Go, Frozen

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• You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.

  Morgan Neville

  Nice, Stories, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.

  Nick Nolte

  Too Much, Vulnerable, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Night, Vintage, Dresses

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• I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.

  Vidya Balan

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

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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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• Oscar Peterson is my favorite all-around pianist. There are pianists I like because of one thing and pianists I like because of another. But overall, I like Oscar Peterson best.

  Carmen McRae

  My Favorite, Pianist, One Thing

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

  Shirley Horn

  Rachmaninoff

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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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• You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

  Ian Mckellen

  Stage Actors, Walks, Know How

  2002 In the Observer,17 Feb.

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• Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

  Perry Brass

  Two, Giving, Cost

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.30, Perry Brass

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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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• In Hollywood, Oscar is king.

  David Letterman

  Kings, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.

  Alexander Payne

  Years, Battle, Adults

  Source: deadline.com

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• Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

  Avery Sunshine

  People, Done, Want

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

  Quincy Jones

  Wings, People, Guy

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• 'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

  Ron Fournier

  Zero, Dark, Three

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• I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

  Megan Fox

  Movie, Mean, Winning

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• As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

  Paul Haggis

  Travel, May, Plans

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