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`ve been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that`s going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen`s lavatory.
David Niven
[on the so-called "Oscar jinx"] The Oscar is the single most important event of my career. I have dined with kings, shared equal billing with my idols, lectured at Harvard and Columbia. If this is a jinx, I`ll take two.
F. Murray Abraham
[on the so-called "Oscar jinx"] The Oscar is the single most important event of my career. I have dined with kings, shared equal billing with my idols, lectured at Harvard and Columbia. If this is a jinx, I`ll take two.
F. Murray Abraham
[To a group of reporters upon winning his Oscar, 1958]: No doorstop shenanigans for me, boys. I have a nice mantel where I`m going to display it.
Alec Guinness
[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 accepting the best actor Oscar for `There Will be Blood`] This sprang like a sapling out of the mad, beautiful head of Paul Thomas Anderson.
Daniel Day-Lewis
The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That`s the little girl in me that will never grow up. - on why not having an Oscar yet doesn`t faze her.
Naomi Watts
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
[his feelings about never having been nominated for an Oscar] I think they were afraid I`d show up at the banquet drunk, embarrassing both myself and them. But I wouldn`t have, you know.
John Barrymore
People say, `Congratulations, you finally got the Oscar`, and I have to correct them: `Actually, it`s my second one. I won for Glory (1989) in 1989.` Some people say, `Yeah, but that was for a supporting actor role` but for me, it`s the same thing.
Denzel Washington
[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
[Returning to Los Angeles after a 20-year self-imposed exile to accept his honorary Oscar in 1971] Thank you so much. This is an emotional moment for me and words seem so futile, so feeble . . . I can only say that . . . thank you for the honor of invitin...
Charlie Chaplin
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 have a place that`s pretty much cemented in Hollywood in terms of liability, box-office viability and everything else. The only thing an Oscar would do is jack my check up maybe $1 million.
Samuel Jackson
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
[in reference to Katharine Hepburn`s tie for the 1968 Oscar with Barbra Streisand]: "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 ...
Bette Davis
[in reference to Katharine Hepburn`s tie for the 1968 Oscar with Barbra Streisand]: "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 ...
Bette Davis
[in reference to Katharine Hepburn`s tie for the 1968 Oscar with Barbra Streisand]: "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 ...
Bette Davis
You get the Oscar and you get better scripts, better actors and better directors to work for and of course your salary goes up until you make your first mistake and then you have to start from the beginning again.
Rod Steiger
[On people comparing him to "Oscar Madison" from "The Odd Couple" (1970)]: People think I`m like Oscar. When they find out I`m not, they seem disappointed.
Jack Klugman
[On people comparing him to "Oscar Madison" from "The Odd Couple" (1970)]: People think I`m like Oscar. When they find out I`m not, they seem disappointed.
Jack Klugman
Oscar Wilde: `Do you mind if I smoke?` Sarah Bernhardt: `I don`t care if you burn`
Sarah Bernhardt
