Oscars Quotes - Page 24

• I was cast in a movie [originally] called Mr. Spreckman's Boat, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Jennifer Connelly. I felt like an "actress." Both of them have won Oscars - maybe that means I might one day.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mean, Gay, One Day

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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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

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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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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• 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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• All my friends are talented enough to get nominated for awards. I just am always surprised when things and people I like are also liked by things like the Oscars.

  Seth Rogen

  Awards, People, Enough

  "Seth Rogen Talks Hosting the 2012 Spirit Awards, THE APOCALYPSE, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS 2, His Favorite Films of the Year, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.

  Frank Pittman

  Couple, Cheer, Brass Bands

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• When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim because that keeps me in business. A filmmaker's greatest concern is the ability to make future films, so it helps keep me in business.

  Alexander Payne

  Two, Helping, Winner

  Source: deadline.com

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• The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

  Heath Ledger

  Sports, Running, Race

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• I think I have a better chance at getting an Oscar before a Grammy.

  Bow Wow

  Thinking, Chance, Grammy

  "Bow Wow No Longer 'Lil'". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.cbsnews.com. April 13, 2009.

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• [Winning an Oscar] was a beautiful thing that happened. It is in my house, and every time I look at, I see all the people who are a part of it, all the people who gave me opportunities to work, gave me opportunities to make a living at this thing [acting] that was a dream for me, growing up. And I got to do it, and then again and again and again, and make a living out of being an actress.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Dream, Growing Up

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• It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

  Sophia Loren

  Beautiful, Winning, Careers

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• I am all about breaking barriers and challenging myself, that is why everything I have done on my resume is different. I have never played a cop again, and I have never played a boxer again since I played Muhammad Ali. That was a challenge, being darker than him, and the film won Best Television Movie and I was a part of that. I was in Mississippi Burning, which won an Oscar.

  Darius McCrary

  Challenges, Different, Burning

  Source: michaelfairmansoaps.com

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• The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, Humor, Hallucinations

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

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• Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.

  Norman Chad

  Funny, Comedy, Winner

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2013

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• There's this unspoken thing that you have to wear a tux and some kind of nice dress. There are all these ethical rules, but I'm sure if you came to the Oscars in ripped jeans and a t-shirt they wouldn't throw you out. You would just look like a fool.

  Glen Hansard

  Nice, Jeans, Dresses

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don't have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I'm a great actress, because I've already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Struggle, Mean, Careers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory.

  David Niven

  Dream, Wall, Dirty

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

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