Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Banks

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Charlize Theron

This is very surreal for me because two years ago, I stood right here and won my Oscar for 'Monster.

Ben Kingsley

I told the queen that winning an Oscar pales into insignificance. This is insurmountable,

We know how sacred the Oscars are. But we said, what the heck.

Dianne Wiest

Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.

Brett Ratner

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Brett Ratner

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

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.

Brenda Blethyn

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

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.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

E. M. Forster

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

Daniel Woodrell

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

Steven Spielberg

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

Tim Robbins

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

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.

Russell Simmons

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

Todd Haynes

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

Tobey Maguire

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

Norman Jewison

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

Maureen O'Hara

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

Martin Scorsese

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

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?

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

I don't think it's transformed animation. The Oscar is the tail and the work is the body.

If we can win something at the end of the year that is something Oscar can take with him forever. That is ultimately the most important thing.

Jessica Simpson

... I can't say I won't ever want an Oscar role, but I don't really take myself serious right now.

Jennifer Lopez

In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.'

Chris Pratt

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

George Steinbrenner

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

Jeff Bridges

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

Christian Kane

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.