Oscars Quotes - Page 23

• In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

  Christian Kane

  Entertainment, Longevity, Grammy

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• You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

  Rita Moreno

  Special, Performances

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was amazed to go Oscar and win it. It was fantastic getting up on the stage there and looking down. I thought, "That guy looks like Steve Martin, and that guy's like Arnold Schwarzenegger." But it was Steve Martin, and it was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then they have this terrible kind of conveyor belt backstage - literally - where they take you to this big hangar where the world's press are gathered, and they make you stand on a stage, and they introduce you.

  Peter Capaldi

  Winning, Guy, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar, but it's up to you what choices you make.

  Rachel Weisz

  Believe, People, Choices

  Source: deadline.com

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• I was offered more work after the Oscar. When I was younger, I would take whatever I was offered because it was money and work and experience. In a way, choosing is the hard part. I know that's a luxury problem, but it's true. I try to go where passion takes me.

  Rachel Weisz

  Passion, Luxury, Trying

  Source: deadline.com

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• It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

  Julianna Margulies

  Running, Silly, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you anything to declare?" He said "I have nothing to declare but my genius." I said "I'll put that down as nothing then shall I?" For I am the wittiest man on Earth.

  Simon Munnery

  Men, Genius, Earth

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• Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play until 4 in the morning. Then you'd go out to the corner and talk to a couple of musicians - I used to talk to Oscar Pettiford a whole lot - you'd stand there till 7, 8 or 9, or else go down to the jam session at Minton's.

  Charles Mingus

  Morning, Couple, Night

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

  Bonnie McKee

  Winning, Thinking, One Day

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• The Oscars are not something I watch anyway.

  Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson

  Watches

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• Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal treatment?The Oscars have not been any different for what...89 years? But why do we keep wanting to get thrown a bone? Why do we want to keep saying 'Can we please come to your party?

  Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson

  Party, Equal Treatment, Years

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• [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 interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid.

  Eric Idle

  Years, Dresses, Stones

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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• [Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Thinking, Broadway, Brilliant

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I remember when I was maybe 27 years old and kind of at the height of my movie stardom - it was around the time of the Oscar and this and that. I think I was very much believing my own hype, which how could you not? I was sitting with my dad, feeling great about my life and everything that was happening, and he was like, "You know, you're getting a little weird...You're kind of an asshole." And I was like, "What the hell?" I was totally devastated. But it turned out to be basically the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dad, Believe, Thinking

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• I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

  Janet Jackson

  Awards, Goal, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do this for her and my family. This is my way of paying my mom back by going after my goals relentlessly and trying to win that Oscar one day.

  Cory Hardrict

  Mom, Winning, Goal

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.

  Pauletta Pearson Washington

  White, People, Needs

  Source: www.theroot.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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