Top Oscars Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Oscars quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Joe Orton
The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.
- Joe Orton
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Image of Carmen McRae
Oscar Peterson is my favorite all-around pianist. There are pianists I like because of one thing and pianists I like because of another. But overall, I like Oscar Peterson best.
- Carmen McRae
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Image of Sergio Leone
If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.
- Sergio Leone
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Image of Nick Nolte
I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.
- Nick Nolte
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Image of Juicy J
There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar.
- Juicy J
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Image of Juanita Moore
The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated.
- Juanita Moore
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Image of Jean Simmons
I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.
- Jean Simmons
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Image of Todd Haynes
A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.
- Todd Haynes
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Image of Jessica Yu
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.
- Jessica Yu
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Image of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Image of Shirley Horn
It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.
- Shirley Horn
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Image of Neil Patrick Harris
The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.
- Neil Patrick Harris
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Image of Duncan Roy
Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.
- Duncan Roy
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Image of Tobey Maguire
It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.
- Tobey Maguire
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Image of Russell Simmons
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
- Russell Simmons
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Image of Max Beerbohm
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
- Max Beerbohm
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Image of Conan O'Brien
The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations.
- Conan O'Brien
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Image of Bette Midler
That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!
- Bette Midler
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Image of Seth Rogen
I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.
- Seth Rogen
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Image of Jerry Seinfeld
Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.
- Jerry Seinfeld
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Image of Steven Spielberg
Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.
- Steven Spielberg
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Image of Sandra Bullock
Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?
- Sandra Bullock
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Image of Michael Caine
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?
- Michael Caine
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Image of Dick Van Dyke
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.
- Dick Van Dyke
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Image of Tina Fey
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.
- Tina Fey
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Image of E. M. Forster
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
- E. M. Forster
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Image of Emma Goldman
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.
- Emma Goldman
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Image of Ricky Gervais
For any of you who don't know, the Golden Globes are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker, and more easily bought.
- Ricky Gervais
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Image of Michael B. Jordan
I'm pretty sure that wasn't Oscar's first time getting harassed or held-up by authorities. And over time you start to feel some type of way when you get pulled over. "Oh, I gotta go through this. Again."
- Michael B. Jordan
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Image of Neil Patrick Harris
Oh sure, now you like him [after the audience applaud David Oyelowo].
- Neil Patrick Harris
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Image of Herbie Hancock
Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
- Herbie Hancock
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Image of Bob Hope
For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
- Bob Hope
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Image of Philippe Falardeau
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.
- Philippe Falardeau
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