Oscar Quotes

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

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

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

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

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

I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.

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.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

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

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

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

I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

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