Oscars Quotes - Page 2

• Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

  Chris Rock

  Awards, Rocks, Hollywood

  "For Better Or Worse, Chris Rock Made The Oscars As Black As He Possibly Could". "All Things Considered" with Eric Deggans, www.npr.org. February 29, 2016.

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• This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

  Roberto Benigni

  Mistake, Used, Terrible

  Roberto Benigni's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1999.

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• When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

  Woody Allen

  Business, Want, Might

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• Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

  Kathy Bates

  Wings, Agents, Given

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• I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.

  Queen Latifah

  Believe, Kids, Opportunity

  "Queen Latifah Talks Ice Age: The Meltdown". Interview With Brian B., movieweb.com. March 29, 2006.

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• If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Trying, Credit, Assuming

  "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature" l. 10 (1928)

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• The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

  Frank Capra

  World, Public Relations, Valuable

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

  Peter Jackson

  Careers, Doubt, Would Be

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

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• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

  Oscar Wilde

  Imagination Creativity, Consistency, Lasts

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946)

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• I am king of the world!

  James Cameron

  Kings, World

  1998 Accepting his Best Director Oscar for Titanic (1997), 23 Mar, an allusion to a line inTitanic.

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• I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

  Jack Nicholson

  Nuts, Prove, Academy

  Jack Nicholson's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 29, 1976.

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Competition, Acting

  "Best Actress 2016: who are the Oscar nominees?". Article by Brie Larson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 29, 2016.

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• This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

  Halle Berry

  Doors, Tonight, Chance

  Halle Berry's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 24, 2002.

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• Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891).Wilde used the same words in A Woman of No Importance (1893).

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• I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

  Hilary Swank

  Girl, Dream, Parks

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

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• Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

  Chris Rock

  Lasts, Welcome

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• To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

  Patricia Arquette

  Equality, Rights, America

  Patricia Arquette's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2015.

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• Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Girl, Men, Should Have

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• I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

  Rob Corddry

  Writing, Winning, Comedy

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• I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

  Denzel Washington

  Thinking, Trying, Want

  Source: deadline.com

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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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• Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

  Elon Musk

  Winning, Years, Car

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

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• Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

  Steve Carell

  Needs, Care, Enough

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• I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

  Graydon Carter

  Party, Years, Dinner

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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