Oscars Quotes - Page 19

• [Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.

  Ice Cube

  Cake, Icing, Ridiculous

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• I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Twilight, Trying, Female

  "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Rosenberg, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

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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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• 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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• '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 don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

  Nora Ephron

  Writing, Acceptance, Care

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

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• I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Let Me, Grammy, Emmys

  "Dick Van Dyke - At 87, Life is Better Than Ever!". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

  Celine Dion

  Two, Gold, Records

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• 'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, Example, Periods

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• I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Motivation, Thinking, People

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• I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Winning, Law, Justice

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• But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Reality, Thinking, Winning

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• Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

  Billy Crystal

  Funny, Humorous, America

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• You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

  Sean Connery

  Golf, Honest, Wonderful

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• It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.

  Phil Collins

  Proud, Drummer

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• I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar.

  Bonnie McKee

  Winning, Thinking, One Day

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• We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies.

  Fady Joudah

  Jobs, Lying, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

  Morgan Freeman

  Movie, Struggle, Thinking

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

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• I get a singular comment that's very revealing: "I didn't know what to expect." Every time I hear that I think it's really just code for, "I wasn't sure I'd be comfortable with you in this role," which I understand coming from Oscar Bluth and Hank Kingsley and whatever. But I think there's a degree of, "Oh, okay, this is how it is." Then almost always people tell me that they love it and then people start talking to me about their families, whether it's transgender issues or not.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Thinking, Talking, Issues

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

  A. R. Rahman

  Mother, Awards, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.

  Billy Eichner

  Kids, Winning, Awards

  Source: www.npr.org

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• After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Robert Olen Butler, Oscar Hijuelos and others, have been most encouraging.

  Andrew Lam

  Years, Twenties, Stories

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to someone. You won't get the Oscar for it. But, after all, why are you writing and why are you filming?

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Writing, Video, Able

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.

  will.i.am

  Sports, School, College

  Source: thesource.com

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• I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time you get to the third story there have been so many great performances that you forget this kid was brilliant. Everybody does their job. It really is a true ensemble. I wish that were a category at the Oscars.

  Andre Holland

  Beautiful, Jobs, Kids

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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