Oscars Quotes - Page 7

• The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.

  Dick Cavett

  Strong, Night, Dating

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• Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.

  Rod Serling

  Bullshit, Looks, Affliction

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Depressing, Winning, Night

  "Biting The Hand That Feeds? 10 Actors Who Dissed The Oscars Before Joaquin Phoenix" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2012.

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• It has never ever been a bad thing in Hollywood to be sleeping with a director who's just won an Oscar or the hot new movie star whose face is on the cover of 'Time' magazine.

  Kelly Rutherford

  Stars, Sleep, Faces

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• I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.

  Bob Hope

  Actors, Reassuring, Really Great

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

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• Remember a few years ago when they left Bea Arthur out of the death reel at the Oscars? Bea Arthur! How did they leave Bea Arthur out? She was in Mame; she was in All in the Family; she was in Maude; she was a Golden Girl, for God's sake! Bea was not only one of Hollywood's leading ladies, she was one of Hollywood's leading men!

  Joan Rivers

  Girl, Men, Years

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• On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live.

  Bill Cosby

  Acceptance, Winning, Giving

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• I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.

  Chris Rock

  Comedian, Tradition, Shows

  "Chris all set to rock the Academy". Interview with Doulha Domingo, www.iol.co.za. February 23, 2005.

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• I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

  Bette Davis

  Winning, Missing, Done

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

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• Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Nominations, Golden, Cry

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• That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

  Mel Gibson

  Children, Thinking, Bird

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• Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.

  Steve Martin

  Long, Comedian, Speak

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

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• Tom Cruise shouldn't try to win Oscars. He should just smile and kick people in the face and leave the acting to Hugh Jackman. Why Hugh Jackman? I dunno; come up with your own example, smart-ass.

  Doug Benson

  Smart, Winning, People

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• I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the couch and suddenly heard my voice. It's thrilling. It's interesting that a lot of guys do me. I have a friend who does me on his answering machine so when I call him I talk to myself. I don't really know what that comes from. It doesn't seem to me that I speak in a strange way. My wife says Kevin's (Spacey) the best.

  Christopher Walken

  Home, Years, Voice

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• They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it's nominated for an Oscar. That's an unusual experience for me, 'cause when a black girl gets pregnant it ain't no Oscar. It's social work and a box of condoms is what that is.

  D. L. Hughley

  Girl, Teenage, Black

  The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, January 17, 2008.

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• When a woman wins an Oscar for telling a story from a woman's point of view, that's going to be the win. That's the moment.

  Julie Davis

  Winning, Views, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was seven, I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with my mom. When Jack Nicholson was strapped to the table getting electroshock treatment, my mom burst into tears. She said it reminded her of her life, and I was stunned, because I didn't know my mom had been nominated for an Oscar.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Tears, Cuckoos

  "Titus / Locking Up Mom". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put it in the book, what I found fascinating was a description, from one of the scientists who helped Pistorius, of what the Paralympics will become. Because they don't place any restriction on enhancements for athletes, in the very near future the Paralympics will bear a closer resemblance to NASCAR than to the traditional Olympics. There will be a human-machine melding that will result in crazy feats of athleticism.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Crazy, Book, Athlete

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Play doesn't have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it's still being played. I think Oscar Wilde said that life is too important to be taken seriously.

  Jeff Bridges

  Taken, Thinking, Play

  "Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher ruminate on life". Interview with Bernie Glassman, www.today.com. January 8, 2013.

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• I mean, if I'm going to the Oscars or something, yes, there are people that are contributing and I'll tell them what I don't like or whatever. I know what I don't like.

  Jared Leto

  Mean, People, Knows

  "Jared Leto Talks Rebel Style, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, and Why He Hates Shopping". Interview with Megan Gustashaw, www.gq.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for Wilde, the folly of humankind and the (romantic) grandeur of the heroic, lone individual (not unlike Wilde himself); for Nabokov, the possibility of a kind of transcendence through a great, prevailing, superior sort of love (especially in Ada, the most self-congratulatory of novels.)

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Believe, Writing, Self

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• I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

  Truman Capote

  Thinking, Amusing, Wilde

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

  Billy Eichner

  Kids, Months, Excited

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance." Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.

  Kevin Sessums

  Army, Years, Bars

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay world.

  Kevin Sessums

  Gay, Men, Criticism

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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