Oscars Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

  E. M. Forster

  Wilde, Unspeakable

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• Free food!" mumbled Hamilton, his mouth full. "No wonder you're rich. You don't have to pay for anything." "Since when is it free?" Jonah demanded. "If I don't leave a big tip, it'll be all over Europe that the Wiz is a cheapskate! They'll seat me behind the sound-man from the penguin movie at the Oscars!

  Gordon Korman

  Men, Europe, Sound

  Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.

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• You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Knowing, Taught, Wilde

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• When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sports, Special, Wilde

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• We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

  David Levithan

  Art, Giving, Role Models

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.113, Egmont UK

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• I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I've seen it.

  Bill Murray

  Ambition, Desire, Acting

  "Bill Murray: 'I know how to be sour'" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2003.

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• My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, 'That's it-let's get the hell outta here.'

  Bill Murray

  Winning, Awards, Acting

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• Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones.

  Joanne Lipman

  Business, Awards, Hollywood

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• I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

  Christine Lahti

  Winning, Marijuana, Smoking

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

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• Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Character, Iron, Personality

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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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• I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.

  Noah Wyle

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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

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• My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for The Social Network.

  Liberty Ross

  Brother, Years, Social Network

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• Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.

  William Goldman

  Work, Thinking, Years

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• Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

  Al Lewis

  Sleep, Bridges, Rich

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• They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

  Robert Altman

  Nice, Winning, Expectations

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• Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.

  Robert Hughes

  Mistake, Hands, Cities

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• The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.

  Robert Altman

  Nice, Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"

  Benicio Del Toro

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• That's one of the things we're most excited about, really, is just allowing this great, Oscar-nominated actor, giving him material to play in one of his signature roles.

  David Kirschner

  Play, Giving, Signatures

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In some ways, the most rewarding thing I've done were the two times that I did the Oscars, particularly the first time because it was really like the ultimate "Let's put on a show," with every great movie star in the world available.

  Laura Ziskin

  Stars, Two, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Neurosis, Stuff, Narcissism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Also I don't want to refer to myself as Maximilian. You'd have to win an Oscar or become mind-numbingly wealthy or hit 50. It's like smoking a cigar, you know what I mean? You can't be a young guy and do it.

  Max Irons

  Mean, Winning, Smoking

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

  Duncan Roy

  Genius, Brilliant, Wilde

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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