Also everyone`s hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You`re not doing it for the money; you`re not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.
Kyra Sedgwick
I`m damn near 37 years old, and I`m jumping up and down on the bed like my 10-year-old. I was a wild man [31 January 2006 upon learning of his Oscar nomination for Hustle & Flow (2005)].
Terrence Howard
[On the Oscar Nomination]: I`d shot all night and was staying at the Banff Springs Resort Hotel in Canada, which is absolutely gorgeous. It looks like a castle, but it was built in the 1800s and at 4 o`clock in the morning you think you`re in The Shining ...
Burt Reynolds
[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 feel that there are great minds up there who would like to see what I can do with an Oscar nomination. I guess many people would change after a nomination in the way they see things. In my case it`s really irrelevant in terms of what I do. Still, it was...
River Phoenix
I feel that there are great minds up there who would like to see what I can do with an Oscar nomination. I guess many people would change after a nomination in the way they see things. In my case it`s really irrelevant in terms of what I do. Still, it was...
River Phoenix
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
It`s exhausting, almost a full-time job. Last time, I found it was too much about bringing attention to yourself. - On his Oscar nomination for Before Night Falls.
Javier Bardem
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
[Regarding he and Joseph Fiennes appearing in both Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Elizabeth (1998)] "He got to make love to Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett. All I got was an Oscar nomination".
Geoffrey Rush
[His reaction to his Oscar-nomination for The Departed (2006)]: Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.
Mark Wahlberg
After tossing and turning all night my wife came running in ... she was just screaming and crying and said, `You got it!` (His reaction to his Oscar-nomination for Little Children (2006))
Jackie Earle Haley
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
[Talking about Burt Reynolds]: "I have always said Burt`s sensitivity and generosity were in great measure responsible for my Academy Award nomination for Starting Over (1979)".
Candice Bergen
I thought it was fabulous. My next ambition is to get nominated for seven seconds, and, ultimately, I want to be nominated for a picture in which I don`t even appear. Interview with Associated Press Radio, 2004, regarding her Emmy nomination for her perfo...
Ellen Burstyn
[About his Academy Award]: Ever since I can remember, I`ve watched the Oscar shows. Watching all those great actors, writers and directors receiving the Holy Grail. I never thought in a million years that I`d get a nomination. As years rolled by I was luc...
Phil Collins
[about Abigail Breslin and her Oscar nomination] I hope she loses, frankly. No, I`m serious. I am not joking. What, next year she is going to get the Nobel Prize? It`s enough. She has had enough attention. I love her and I love her family, and I feel enou...
Alan Arkin
The two biggest moments of my life were walking on-stage (as an actor) in Tony Kushner`s Angels in America on opening night on Broadway. The second was being nominated for a screenplay Oscar along with him. [on Oscar nomination for Capote (2005) on 31 Jan...
Dan Futterman
[talking about her Oscar nomination (her father Burt Lane, who managed her early career, passed away in February 2002] The only phone call I really yearn to make is one I can`t, which is to say, "Guess what, Dad?"
Diane Lane
It was cool that an Oscar nomination never happened for a long time, and then it was cool that it did happen. But I don`t want to always be feeling this thing in my chest like, `Am I good enough? Am I gonna be rejected?`
Bill Murray
[when he received news of his Emmy nomination] "I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let`s make it the orthodontist."
Frankie Muniz
[when he received news of his Emmy nomination] "I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let`s make it the orthodontist."
Frankie Muniz
I was pretty much a basket case for the first year - I didn`t think I was that good. Then when the Tony nomination came through and I got the Theatre World Award - I really thought they gave it to me `cause there was no-one else.. (on her Broadway debut)
Phyllis Hyman
On receiving her 4th Oscar nomination: "I can`t believe it. I am ecstatic! This nomination means so much to me. To be remembered for a film that was released a while ago, I am unbelievably honoured and completely overwhelmed."
Kate Winslet
On receiving her 4th Oscar nomination: "I can`t believe it. I am ecstatic! This nomination means so much to me. To be remembered for a film that was released a while ago, I am unbelievably honoured and completely overwhelmed."
Kate Winslet
On Thelma & Louise after her nomination for best actress, 1992, "I was surprised that the film struck such a primal nerve. I knew when we were filming that it would be different, unusual and hopefully entertaining. But shocking? I guess giving women the o...
Susan Sarandon
Also everyone`s hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You`re not doing it for the money; you`re not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.
Kyra Sedgwick
