Oscars Quotes

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

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

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

'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 meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set.

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

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 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!

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

I never won an Oscar...and the Oscars never won Irene Papas.

This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.

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

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

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

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

The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.

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

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

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.

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

I remember during Oscar season, the thing I hated most was being talked to differently; people treat you differently. And then I suddenly understood why celebrities can be so weird; it's hard to act normal when no-one treats you normally.

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

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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

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.

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

The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.

The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

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!

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.

I had an existential crisis at the Oscars, sitting next to Sean Penn and Meryl Streep, and being like, 'What am I doing here? I don't belong here'. I felt like it could all be taken away.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.