Oscars Quotes - Page 8

• Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar Wilde scene. Even though I also knew there was such a thing as the Harvard-Yale game, I was still a little surprised that Harvard had a football team. I just assumed if there were such a thing as gay people, that they were nothing like us. Little did I know that probably half the swim team at Yale was gay.

  Kevin Sessums

  Football, Team, Gay

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.

  Donal Logue

  Watches, Bitterness, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

  Amy Goodman

  Native American, Marine, Army

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I've always taken a lot of cues from comedy minds. The guy that discovered me in the very beginning was Joseph Cates. Joe and Gil Cates were the Cates brothers. Gil produced the Oscars for many years. Joe produced a lot of comedy specials, Steve Martin specials, and he discovered me, this 18-year-old kid.

  David Copperfield

  Brother, Taken, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.

  Baran Odar

  Directors, Collaboration, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• When [my father] reached his majority, he was the head of the family. Everybody depended upon him. He went into a very uptight appearance; he would wear Chesterfield coats to work, Homburg hats, really getting into the whole thing. He knew people like Oscar Levant. He loved New York. He wanted to live there.

  Paul Laffoley

  New York, Father, People

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.

  John Hurt

  Play, Wilde, Wit

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it's great.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Diversity

  "Russell Simmons Has Your Oscars Alternative". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. February 28, 2016.

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• We're shaking up a format, which I think is always a good thing. The thing about [2011 Oscar hosts] James [Franco] and Anne [Hathaway] is, they've both hosted Saturday Night Live, and they both did a good job at it. So they are accustomed to working with short rehearsal time, and live, lots of pressure, rewrites, things like that. They can make quick changes, which is very advantageous, and they're skilled comedians.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Is Chris Rock still gonna host the Oscars after this blatant racism?? Is everyone still gonna show up??

  Tyrese Gibson

  Rocks, Racism, Host

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• Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

  Michael Caine

  Years, Patient, Courses

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• Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

  Mark Ruffalo

  Real, Men, Nominations

  "Mark Ruffalo talks Spotlight, Thor: Ragnarok and Columbo". Interview with Phil De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. February 1, 2016.

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• In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.

  Todd Haynes

  Rocks, Glam Rock, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

  Todd Haynes

  Tradition, Wilde, Refusal

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.

  Todd Haynes

  Ideas, Trying, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

  Artist, Winning, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• My sons last summer, they won a trophy from their surfing camp and they came home and went right over to the shelf and put it up next to my Oscar. That's where we put our trophies.

  Geena Davis

  Summer, Home, Son

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• "Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup.

  Tom Cole

  Team, Amazon, Three

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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• My taste tends to skew a little bit towards the more feminine. Monique Lhuillier, Oscar de la Renta. Some of his wedding dresses in particular have been spectacular.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Dresses, Littles, Taste

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Sylvester wins, obviously [best actor in a supporting role in 2016]. That's the whole point of this. We're all getting dressed up to go to the Oscars to hear Sylvester Stallone, let no one get this twisted. The academy can't pay for a better moment than this: this is the Oscar's original darling.

  Bun B

  Winning, Pay, Roles

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• It would be kind of ill to see Rachel McAdams win an Oscar [for Spotlight] - I don't think people give her credit for her range, she started in a kind of character with younger demographic-aged films and really made a push to be taken more seriously and got a lot of opportunities and knocked it out the park. But I feel like Jennifer Jason Leigh deserves one, maybe not just for Hateful Eight but for [Anomalisa] and everything. Like, I tried to watch Adaption again, that's rough!

  Bun B

  Taken, Character, Winning

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• Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of Oscar Wilde. His early reading of Platen's poetry, and, probably when he was in his early twenties, of Platen's diaries, introduced him to a form of sexual expression he found profoundly congenial. It's not quite Platonic.

  Philip Kitcher

  Sex, Reading, Fate

  Source: www.3ammagazine.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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• I think for most actors, because we sort of have to tell ourselves this, we always say, 'Oh, it doesn't mean anything to win an Oscar!' It certainly isn't a goal that you want to set yourself up for, because then you're just setting yourself up for disaster. Because how many people actually win an Oscar?

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Mean, Thinking, Winning

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• One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

  Marian McPartland

  Men, Piano, Should

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