Oscars Quotations | Page 3

All my friends are talented enough to get nominated for awards. I just am always surprised when things and people I like are also liked by things like the Oscars.

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.

Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.

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'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.

So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar,

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!

I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent to me and a few films throughout the year.

When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar.

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.

I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple

Oh sure, now you like him [after the audience applaud David Oyelowo].

Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.

This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon

The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.

Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.

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.

Anne Hathaway, you gave a stunning performance in "Les Miserables." I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that, since you were onstage with James Franco at the Oscars.

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

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

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.

Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.

Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.

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

Upon accepting her Oscar for "Julia," 1978: "My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I salute you and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

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.

I'd like to win an Oscar.

'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'

I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.

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

Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10,

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.

All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.

Some of my best friends are Oscar Wilde.

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

The last time I saw a blonde with red streaks in her hair she was laying on Oscar Pistorius' bathroom floor,

Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card.

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.

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.