Oscars Quotes - Page 4

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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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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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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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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When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

Marlee Matlin

Awards, Trying, Might

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I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.

Marlee Matlin

Couple, Naysayers, Tvs

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At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

Mercedes McCambridge

Awards, Exorcist, Categories

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I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal

Jennifer Connelly

Growing Up, Thinking, Winning

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When I went to the Oscars - the only time I've ever been to the Oscars - a few years ago, I wore this Prada dress covered in cooking utensils. I got drunk at the end of the night and started ripping them off and giving them as presents to people, so that was fun. I'm pretty sure that was the point of it, that's how Miuccia meant for it to go I'm sure.

Carey Mulligan

Fun, Night, Years

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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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I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

Martin Scorsese

Thinking, Should Have, Things In Life

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

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If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chloe Sevigny

Feeling Down, Red Lipstick, Feelings

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Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

Rob Sheffield

Dog, Jobs, Hero

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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

Stephen Sondheim

Father, Months, Week

"Maestro of Broadway". www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

Meryl Streep

Winning, Audience

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'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!

Kristin Scott Thomas

Talking, Careers, Patient

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I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

Emma Thompson

Friends, Good Friend, Men

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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 we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

Harvey Weinstein

Artist, Excellence, Doe

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

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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

Rachel Weisz

Romantic, Girl, Winning

Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. April 22, 2003.

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This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it cant be.

Javier Bardem

Believe, Thinking, Important

"'Why am I doing this absurd job?'" by Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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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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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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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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