Oscars Quotes - Page 3

• January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

  Michael Caine

  Garbage Cans, America, January

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• If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

  Michael Caine

  Thinking, Schedules, Ifs

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• The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

  Jeff Bridges

  Nominations

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• People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

  Halle Berry

  Fall, Winning, Expectations

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• When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Excellence, Accepting, Goliath

  "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.wbaa.org. December 2, 2011.

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• When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

  Martin Filler

  Accomplishment, Survivor, Lasts

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• I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Want

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• Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Making Love, Towns

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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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• Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Suing, Homosexuality

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• As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

  George Plimpton

  People, Too Much, Way

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• Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.

  Bob Hope

  Drinking, Night, Suffering

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.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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• After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

  Shirley Jones

  Children, School, Salary

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

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• I have a great job writing for “The Office,” but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I’ll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

  Mindy Kaling

  Dream, Jobs, Writing

  "Flick Chicks" by Mindy Kaling, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2011.

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• I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

  Val Kilmer

  Winning, Want, I Can

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• I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Winning, Opportunity, Havens

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• I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Years, Hollywood

  Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.

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• It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

  Damian Lewis

  Running, Latin, Party

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• I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Winning, Engagement, Want

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• I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Inspirational, Girl, Dance

  "In brief: Watching Babel may make you sick". www.theguardian.com. May 03, 2007.

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• Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

  John Lydon

  Laughing, Able, World Upside Down

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Believe, Honor, Said

  "Seth MacFarlane Oscars Monologue: His Quotes From The Academy Awards". www.moviefone.com. February 24, 2013.

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• The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Want Something, Would Be, Worst

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