Top 275 Oscar Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Oscar Quotes from famous people such as Kaya Scodelario, Brad Goreski, Richard Corliss, Udo Kier, Sherri Shepherd, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an

Everyone asks, ‘What’s your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?’ No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud.
Kaya Scodelario
Whether you are right in the middle of a glamorous event or watching it from the sidelines, the red carpet Oscar events set the stage to showcase the latest designs and styles for those watching around the world.
Brad Goreski
Icy and earthy, Helen Mirren is a rare, regal presence in a movie age that values the plebeian over the patrician and mass over class. Lauded with an Oscar and an Emmy for playing both Queen Elizabeths, Mirren has matched her cool aristocracy with a boldness of performance and display.
Richard Corliss
I made films, like ‘Shadow of the Vampire,’ and I did not like the work I did on it and then Willem Dafoe was nominated for the Oscar. I made films like ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’ with Martin Landau. I thought I would get nominated and it flopped. You never know.
Udo Kier
I’m not into the Oscar and Emmys as much as I used to be because I’m tired of looking at people who don’t look like me.
Sherri Shepherd
When I made ‘Weekend,’ the idea that ‘Moonlight’ would win the Oscar would be like, Whaaaaat? Like, that’s not going to happen.
Andrew Haigh
The Oscar nomination is great. It’s a great pat on the back. And I like that.
Jeff Bridges
You can wish to have an Oscar someday or some other award, but Life Achievement? You don’t see yourself that way.
Rita Moreno
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
Helen Hunt
I auditioned specifically for Cyborg, but at the time, they were using a code name for the character… I think it was Oscar.
Ray Fisher
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
Al Lewis
You get the reality checks during the course of your adult life and your career, and you realize that as good as the money in boxing is, most of the time people most don’t make Ray Leonard or Oscar De La Hoya money, even if you make very good money.
Paulie Malignaggi
When I was nominated for the Oscar, I was absolutely positive that Judy Garland would win for ‘Judgment at Nuremberg,’ and then they call my name, and I was absolutely paralyzed. And I remember walking down to the stage and saying to myself, ‘Don’t run. It’s not dignified.’
Rita Moreno
I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It’s good for business.
Benicio Del Toro
They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.
Ellen Burstyn
Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations?
Kevin Bacon
I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde’s – ‘The Nightingale and the Rose,’ ‘The Selfish Giant.’ The latter is probably my all-time favorite.
Denis O’Hare
I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell, and it’s actually been really nice.
Morgan Neville
When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like ‘Con Air’ and ‘Gone in 60 Seconds,’ not what would be expected.
Nicolas Cage
Dr. Seuss said, ‘No one can be you-er than you,’ and Oscar Wilde said, ‘Be yourself because everyone else is taken.’ So I just try to continue to be who I am and don’t change that. And I’m a little chameleon, so I can fit in wherever I am.
Martellus Bennett
Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
Kathy Bates
There’s a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar; I would love to get nominated again.
Juicy J
I’m pretty excited: to be inducted into the Hall of Fame is a massive achievement… and to be inducted with Oscar de la Hoya and Felix Trinidad, two great fighters, is a massive honour for me and my family.
Joe Calzaghe
I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a student under Calvin Klein, my project was to make a coat, and then years later, I was hired at Calvin, by Calvin, to design coats for him. It came full circle!
Narciso Rodriguez
I have four dogs – Sadi, a Retriever, and Oscar, Ruby and Bella, who are Yorkies.
Dale Steyn
I think most people have that out of body experience when they win the Oscar.
Sandra Bullock
You can’t believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.
Joel Siegel
I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn’t offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.
Bipasha Basu
I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn’t have one for best actor.
Julia Roberts
I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.
Vidya Balan
I picked up some wonderful things just listening to other pianists that I appreciate, and that would be Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Horowitz, and Art Tatum. Those are the pianists I really enjoy and admire.
Aretha Franklin
My family and I grew up watching and admiring Oscar De

My family and I grew up watching and admiring Oscar De La Hoya and to now be fighting under his promotional banner is a dream come true.
Ryan Garcia
I paid attention how to land a big shot, like Oscar De La Hoya with the left hook.
Ryan Garcia
I’m an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I’m going to sing that ‘I’m an Oscar nominee’ part.
Octavia Spencer
I’d like to win an Oscar and then refuse it so I can protest the way they’ve treated Marlon Brando.
Michael Horse
It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn’t have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.
Linda Hunt
There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you’ve won is completely draining.
Nick Park
I’m not going to get an Oscar at 30 – that’s done. So I’ll think of something else.
Shirley Henderson
Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They’re really for people who like to schmooze.
Daryl Hannah
I’m one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.
Bai Ling
How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn’t going to change my life – that I had to be in control of changing my life.
Mo’Nique
The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don’t feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn’t mean I’m any better than anyone.
Cate Blanchett
It’s not just people in Hollywood: I’m sure everyone in the world thinks, ‘What would be it like if I won an Oscar?’
Roman Coppola
I have great respect for Harvey as an artist, and owe him and his brother a debt of gratitude for the early success in my career, including the Oscar.
Mira Sorvino
‘The English Patient’ was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
Kristin Scott Thomas
I have a running daydream about winning an Oscar and giving my speech about how ridiculous it is to rank art. And then I’d call them all sycophants and leave the statue at the podium as I walked away.
Ari Shaffir
I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
Adam Sandler
‘Switched at Birth’ has an amazing cast, including an Oscar winner and two Emmy nominees. The writing is very innovative, and the show’s producers have redefined U.S. TV by launching a mainstream show which includes multiple deaf cast members whose characters communicate only in ASL (American Sign Language).
Rachel Shenton
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile – with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde’s books in a bookshop makes me smile.
Orhan Pamuk
Oscar Wilde: ‘Do you mind if I smoke?’ Sarah Bernhardt: ‘I don’t care if you burn.’
Sarah Bernhardt
Every time we get into an argument about cooking or laundering shirts, she shakes her Oscar at me, and I’m dead in the water. It would be a great equalizer now after 33 years.
Paul Newman
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar – I can assure you you don’t.
Judi Dench
It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it. I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Al Pacino
I’d love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I’ve made get a wide release. I’m not sure that’s ever going to happen.
Bill Plympton
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.
Billy Eichner
I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.
Stephen Sondheim
I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you’re in trouble. It’s like wanting to be married – you’ll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.
Bill Murray