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Oscar Wilde
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Since that guy from L.A. (Oscar Robles) hit that pitch that bounced (earlier this month off Rob Tejeda), nothing surprises me anymore.
Jon Lieber
Giving an Oscar nomination to this film glorifies inexcusable actions. It may even encourage future homicide bombings.
Nonie Darwish
The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your little dark room, you dream and wait for it.
Terrence Howard
We've been hearing this year how there are no Oscar favorites, ... Now, with 'American Beauty' receiving eight nominations ... it goes into the Oscars as the 'favorite.'
Peter Travers
I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
Jack Lemon
I don't think it's transformed animation. The Oscar is the tail and the work is the body.
John Bloom
I have no idea what plans E! has on Oscar night. If they're suggesting they would do something similar on our red carpet, we would have some good discussions with them. I can predict we would be extraordinarily angry if that happened on our carpet. I cannot predict what we would do afterwards.
John Pavlik
What a difference a day makes, ... The Oscar gave me all these opportunities. It's a magic wand.
Julian Fellowes
It was a wonderful movie. Very popular. Many people saw it. Oscar.
Christopher Walken
It's the most heavily sought-after award. It's the Oscar of broadcast journalism.
Doug Green
I've got a checklist of things I want - including a Brit, a Grammy, an Oscar and a white poodle. Sometimes it gets lonely, and I want a baby too! I'm ticking things off the list.
Joss Stone
Well their performance was really brilliant. They should get an Oscar for best performance in a comedy.
Laura Pollan
To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.
Peter Jackson
Winning the Oscar will inspire Asian directors who try to get a seat in Hollywood. His success tells them that they don't have to give up their cultures to join the American mainstream.
Liang Liang
[Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor and Brenda Blethyn (a 1997 Oscar nominee for Best Actress for] Secrets and Lies ... The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.
Jane Horrocks
King Kong. We shouldn't discount that as an Oscar contender.
Richard Roeper
Tom and I wanted to make this film before I won the Oscar, but I couldn't get the backing to set it up, and he wasn't considered big enough to play the lead.
Julian Fellowes
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.
Greg Vanney
You get jewelry - stuff you can wear. Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, you can't hang that around your neck. But everywhere you go, you've got your poker gold and diamond bracelet on; everyone knows you won.
Jennifer Tilly
Because of the way the academy has crunched down the Oscar season, you have to look at positioning your key titles to take advantage of that.
Ralph Tribbey
[Law, who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in] The Talented Mr. Ripley, ... Alfie.
Sienna Miller
Oscar people have never gotten the joke.
Tom O'neill
I thought that Jack [Nicholson, who presented the Oscar] had a little too much to drink and said the wrong film.
Bobby Moresco
There have been numerous methods by which Sheriff Clark and Covington County was put on notice for potential escapes, more specifically for Oscar Doster.
Will Phillips
I was against him going into it. I said, 'You can never make it (an Oscar).' I've been in and out of the pictures business for a number of years, and you don't just make one picture and hope you can get anything done with it. But that's quite an achievement. He fooled me.
Carl Pohlad
He is making a big mental mistake by trying to look past me trying to get to Oscar.
Shane Mosley
(for which he won numerous critics' prizes and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe.
Danny Aiello
My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
Anne Dudley
I'm already writing my Oscar speech.
Mike Diamond
Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.
Luis Bunuel
The attack on 'Munich' was not coordinated but it amounted to a real campaign to have a lot of people not see the film and it got mixed up with Oscar issues.
Tony Kushner
I never felt that anybody -- anybody -- ever played the game better than Oscar. You just always felt he would find a way to beat you.
Jerry West
I suppose I grew up wishing I was an American Jew for the comedy and the one-liners. ... actress who does a Holocaust movie because, as she explains, it's a surefire way to finally win an Oscar.
Ricky Gervais
I was actually in my mid-30s when I got the Oscar. And yeah, it does kind of spoil you in terms of the kind of stuff you look for.
Anjelica Huston
I'm so over-earnest sometimes. But my parents were pop-culture icons in the Sixties, and my mom has this Oscar, and I was trying to figure out, how am I going to leave my mark?
Sean Astin
I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this [on winning an Oscar 2005].
Hilary Swank
Anytime Oscar wants to join North Las Vegas, he's welcome to join.
Stephanie Smith
I feel very, very proud to hold this (Oscar) because it tells me, and all of us at home, that we can do it.
Gavin Hood
With the new trophies in his pocket, his chance of winning Oscar awards has risen even further.
Liang Liang
[The] Corpse Bride ... The Oscar for Best Animated Feature belongs here.
Peter Travers
Having a Club Manager with such diverse experience at the executive level will be of great benefit to the club. We are excited and are looking forward to Oscar bringing the Club to the next level.
Francisco Gonzalez
(We will do) whatever we have to do. One thing is what Oscar (Arias) thinks today and another thing is what he's going to have to think tomorrow.
Oscar Campos
I think we can expect her to go for a bold dress on Oscar night. One that really calls attention.
Galina Espinoza
That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.
Mel Gibson
It's nice. It has a picture of an Oscar on it.
John Platt
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
Frederic Raphael
[Actress Holly Hunter's credits include an Oscar in 1993 for her role in] The Piano, ... The Prince of Egypt.
Jeff Goldblum
You can't make a good (movie) and win an Oscar.
Mark Potter
The most exciting piano player I've heard since those first sessions with Bill Evans and Marian McPartland and Oscar Peterson.
The Bee Gees
She needs a psychiatrist. Her narcissism and the need to feel important has caused a black hole in the character that can only be filled with abnormal human experience. It is clear that she thrives in the spotlight Oscar has generated from these horrible murders.
Anita Holley
When you think about Oscar Smith, Bill Myers is the first thing you think of.
Kevin Cole
It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
Jerry Della Femina
For many people, the Oscar can be the kiss of death, but Jamie is showing that he has staying power in this thing for the long haul. He just keeps getting better.
Jawn Murray
The first thing that your should do when you win an Oscar is thank God. The second thing you should do is forget it. The third thing you should do is call your agent and tell him you need a job.
Rod Steiger
This is the unofficial start of the Oscar race.
Laura Scarfo
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn'.
Sarah Bernhardt
If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.
Chris Wedge
An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
Alejandro Amenabar
They don't like any of those people. It's all politics. No matter what happens on-set, off-set, all is forgiven when you get that Oscar.
Anderson Jones
The Oscar is supposed to be the ultimate blessing of your career, and in fact it can turn out to be the ultimate curse.
Tom O'neil
They (Brown and Mayor Oscar Goodman) bent over backwards to make it work. (The city officials) were extraordinarily accommodating and it's been a wonderful experience.
Steve Bellamy
My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
Beau Bridges
From this moment forward, Oscar Arias has been declared officially elected as president of Costa Rica.
Oscar Fonseca
I really want him to win the Oscar.
Simon Baker
Is a look at what happens on a movie set when the word Oscar gets bandied about.
Eugene Levy
There are three effects to an Oscar.
Emmanuel Levy
[One classic case of instant Oscar wealth is Dustin Hoffman.] He got just $17,000 for 'The Graduate,' ... After 'The Graduate,' it was $400,000.
Emmanuel Levy
Everybody gets more money, the question is how much, ... All About Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards.
Emmanuel Levy
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.
Ellen Burstyn
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