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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.
When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.
I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.
Michael Moore got booed at the Oscars, so how liberal is Hollywood? Honestly, it's not liberal enough for me!
Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors.
I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar I'm always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac on TV, too.
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.
Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.
God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.
Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.
Hosting the Oscars is pretty much the scariest thing you can do. To me, this is right up there with bungee jumping!
I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.
The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.
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.
I love the Oscars. All sorts of tacky people win. And watching everyone run up and down those aisles is just adorable.
In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.
By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?
The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.
To be at the Oscars for 'American Sniper' and then also supporting Red Carpet Green Dress is just twice as cool for me.
The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.
Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.
I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.
I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason I gave it a miss.
I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.
I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.
Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.
I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.
I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.
If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.
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.
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
I regret not taking my 83-year-old mother to the Oscars the year I won. She deserved the Oscar for giving up so much for me.
I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.
I have an awards cabinet in my studio where I keep my eight Oscars, my 11 Grammys, my seven Golden Globes, and my Tony Award.
Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.
I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars.
One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.
The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.
Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!
Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.
The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.