There`s been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn`t have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can`t count the ways a director`s vision is...
Lili Taylor
[yo 1979 Academy Awards show writer Buz Kohan, after receiving his honorary Oscar] God, I mucked that up. I had no idea what I was saying but I didn`t want to stop.
Laurence Olivier
[On the Academy Awards, to Connie Chung after his Best Supporting Actor nomination for A Dry White Season (1989)] "That`s a part of the sickness in America, that you have to think in terms of who wins, who loses, who`s good, who`s bad, who`s best, who`s w...
Marlon Brando
I`m shot into the stratosphere. You can`t pasteurize the Academy Award. You can`t negotiate it. It is the top. It is the biggest thing ever. I`ve been hopping around and screaming all morning." [about her Oscar nomination]
Felicity Huffman
There`s a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.
Steve Martin
There`s a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.
Steve Martin
[on winning the Best Actor Academy Award for Vita è bella, La (1997) after already accepting the Best Foreign Language Film award as its director] "Thank you. This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all my English!"
Roberto Benigni
[on winning awards, after he won the British Academy award] "It`s just an award although it is a big one. It is no good getting too big-headed. I`ve been very busy and I`m very tired. I`ve been given advice, you know on speech-making and things like that....
Jamie Bell
Regarding the WGA Strike and how it could affect the Academy Awards: The show must go on, that is one of the tenets of everything. I am a member of the board of governors of the Academy, and we definitely want to put on a great show and honor the films th...
Tom Hanks
Regarding the WGA Strike and how it could affect the Academy Awards: The show must go on, that is one of the tenets of everything. I am a member of the board of governors of the Academy, and we definitely want to put on a great show and honor the films th...
Tom Hanks
[Presenting the Lifetime of Achievement Award to director Sidney Lumet at the 2005 Academy Awards] As an old village poet put it to me in the 1960s. [If you dig it, it`s yours]. I dug Sidney Lumet back then. I dig him now because what he had to give, I to...
Al Pacino
I keep having to pinch myself to make sure I`m actually awake. The Oscars are so big -- they`re huge ... I`m totally humbled and ecstatic. No words are enough to explain ... it`s like, wow. It`s absolutely incredible. - after finding out about her Academy...
Keisha Castle-Hughes
[In reference to the Oscar Family Album Tribute sequence at The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998) (TV) and speaking live on British television following the Oscar ceremony in 1998] I was sat up there with the likes of Claire Trevor and Luise Rainer. It me...
Michael Caine
[On her Rachel, Rachel (1968) director and husband Paul Newman being snubbed in the Best Director category by the Academy Awards in 1969] "How do you figure it? He even won the New York Film Critics award that year for it, but didn`t get in as one of the ...
Joanne Woodward
[2005 Academy Awards acceptance speech for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ray (2004/I)] I guess we got to do it again. "Oh, ah!" Yeah, you`re ready. That`s for Ray Charles. Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles,...
Jamie Foxx
[on winning the Academy Award for The Hours (2002)] And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I`m going to make my daughter proud.
Nicole Kidman
I`ve been very blessed, I think, or what do you call it... mmm... lucky to get at this stage what I have. It`s not like I`ve come from acting school and done work at an academy or something. I feel I`ve been given a very huge chance and opportunity. (Star...
Katrina Kaif
(Addressing the rumours of a Police Academy (1984)/Mahoney spin-off film) "Definitely. It`s coming. People will look down at the idea, but they`re in the same business of making money too. The Police Academy films gave me so much opportunity, and I`ve got...
Steve Guttenberg
(Addressing the rumours of a Police Academy (1984)/Mahoney spin-off film) "Definitely. It`s coming. People will look down at the idea, but they`re in the same business of making money too. The Police Academy films gave me so much opportunity, and I`ve got...
Steve Guttenberg
At my utopian film academy I would have students do athletic things with real physical contact, like boxing, something that would teach them to be unafraid. I would have a loft with a lot of space where in one corner there would be a boxing ring. Students...
Werner Herzog
This is either the most courageous moment of my career or the stupidest...I also thought long and hard whether or not I would attend, but I came here because this is America and one must do what one believes. I believe in the Academy. I also believe in my...
Powers Boothe
[On the Academy Awards circa 1978] I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don`t think they know what they`re doing. When you see who wins those things -- or who doesn`t win them -- you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.
Woody Allen
I was a novice as far as film was concerned. I`d been working for 20 years at the time, then all that happened. [In reference to Secrets & Lies (1996) and her Academy Award nomination.]
Brenda Blethyn
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce
