Quotes of: Oscar Keyword

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

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.

Ernest Borgnine

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.

Steve Martin

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn't think it's cursed?

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

...what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

Steve Carell

I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

Brett Ratner

A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'

Viggo Mortensen

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

Jennifer Connelly

At the Emmys, you've got a bunch of people who are used to being on TV on TV. You don't have that at the Oscars. At the Oscars, you have people who are used to having 40 takes.

Jimmy Kimmel

Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got o...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Hoke Colburn: Hey, there, Oscar, Junior... how you boys doin' this morning? Oscar: How the old lady treatin' you, Hoke? Hoke Colburn: Lord, I tell you one thing... she sho' do know how to throw a fit! [Hoke, Oscar, and Junior break out in laughter] D...

Driving Miss Daisy

I always hated obvious dreams like that. I still do.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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

If some of us can get an Oscar for extolling that it's hard out there for a pimp, why can't others of us admonish: 'Then quit acting like a pimp'?

John Ridley

With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.

Derek Blasberg