Oscars Quotes - Page 9

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.

If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.

There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.

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.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.