Top 110 Oscars Quotes

I’m the only person who’s ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

I have always been saying that we are making a mockery of ourselves by sending such idiotic films to the Oscars. This is very sad. We have great filmmakers but none of their films are sent to the Oscars, why?

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.

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

I have an awards cabinet in my studio where I keep my eight Oscars, my 11 Grammys, my seven Golden Globes, and my Tony Award.

I want to meet Denzel Washington when I go to the Oscars. Every man wants to see Halle Berry in person. And, you know, Dolly Parton… I wouldn’t mind seeing Dolly Parton. She’s from Tennessee, I’m from Tennessee.

Comedies don’t get nominated for Oscars. It doesn’t happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it’s not what we’re thinking about.

I regret not taking my 83-year-old mother to the Oscars the year I won. She deserved the Oscar for giving up so much for me.

Born in the silent era, with the first ceremony hosted by Douglas Fairbanks at the Roosevelt Hotel, the Oscars are a tradition in a business that doesn’t have much of it, and the biggest spectacle in a business that’s often nothing but.

As we look at Hollywood and the controversy around the Oscars, it goes back to the voting block and the lack of people who come from that culture. For example, the NWA movie is a fantastic, fantastic movie. You need people who can look at a piece of art like that and understand the artistry in it.

I do the Golden Globes because they say I can say what I want. I wouldn’t have that at the Oscars.

Being at the first post-Weinstein Oscars was amazing. It felt like there’s a spotlight on diversity.

A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.

Don’t boycott the Oscars. Staying away from something that needs to change is no way to change it. Instead, let’s help them lead the way in promoting diversity in Hollywood.

I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it’s ‘Beasts’ or ‘Winter’s Bone,’ wound up in the Oscars lineup.

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

And I think I might be one of the first, if not the first, drag queens, in drag, to ever walk down the red carpet at the Oscars. And I hope that means something to somebody out there, because it means something to me.

I’m into looking at things from the other point of view. And if you look at who votes in the Oscars, mostly older Jewish guys, they’re going to vote for stuff they relate to. Do they relate to NWA? I doubt it.

I can tell you that going to the Oscars is not as exciting as people think, at least for me.

You don’t do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn’t win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way.

I watch the Oscars in my pajamas like everybody else.

I can’t believe I am hosting the Oscars. It’s an honor everyone else said no.

It’s like, once you’ve seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you’ve seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can’t fully get really lost in them.

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

The day after the Oscars, I flew back to London to film a television play for Anglia. It was a big mistake because you never really get acknowledged for wanting to work in England, as I did.

I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I’d be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

I can’t believe I am hosting the Oscars. It’s an honor everyone else said no.

When I was first starting out was also when I first started really paying attention to the Oscars and stuff like that. And I remember thinking, ‘Wow, everything is great for women in Hollywood, because Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jessica Lange, Sally Field – they’re all doing incredible work.’

I am thrilled and very grateful that ‘Gully Boy’ has been picked as India’s official entry for the Oscars.

The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.

I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason I gave it a miss.

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 has proven to be a preeminent voice in comedy, with 15 seasons of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ under his belt and successfully tackling the herculean task of hosting both the Emmys and the Oscars in the same season.

You always want to look your best at events like the Globes, Emmys, or Oscars. It’s a part of the business that I am not particularly comfortable with. I would prefer to turn up in a pair of jeans and an old shirt, but it’s all about image – the studio wants you to look your best.

Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.

I’m very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn’t have as many good movies as we do have.

I don’t really like the Oscars; it’s a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it’s hardly the Nobel prize.

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

For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.

When we first went to L.A., Howard Koch, who was the head of Paramount Pictures and later President of the Oscars, threw a welcome lunch for us at his house. There were all these stars there – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Lucille Ball, Natalie Wood, Henry Mancini.

I got invited to what’s called the Gifting Suite in Toronto. I had the day off, so I thought I’d go and see what’s what. You come out laden with wonderful stuff. Apparently, if you go to the Oscars, you get given things like iPads. Not that I’m in it for the swag.

I was on the set of ‘Braveheart’ and my mate says to me, ‘Do you think this film will be any good?’ And I really meant this, too, I told him ‘Let me put it this way – It won’t win any awards.’ Cut to: five Oscars.

In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn’t. There’s more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was as good or as bad any Bollywood film. If I had to rate it, I would give it just 5.5 points out of 10. Unlike others, I am not gung-ho about the film winning so many Oscars. Yes, I am happy that I was a part of the project, but I am yet to figure out why it got so many Oscars.

Maybe I’ll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot.

When I was five years old, I remember watching the opening of the Oscars with my mother and crying as I watched celebrities walk in on the red carpet. Why would any child cry watching the Oscars? For me, the reason was simple: I wanted to be there so badly that I burst into tears.

To me, there were comedies that should go up for Oscars. I think Eddie Murphy in ‘The Nutty Professor’ was one of the greatest acting performances of all time, but it’d never be recognized that way. They always go for De Niro and Pacino, but Eddie Murphy played seven different people!

I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren’t any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience – to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it’s recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.

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.’

I know it’s superficial, and you can’t measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I’ve watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

I’m one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, ‘Yeah, I want to know what that’s like!’ I’m always curious to know what things are like – as long as you’re not compromising who you are.

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, ‘I’m going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.’