The other day, a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip’s Originals tweeted me telling me that they named a doughnut after me called the ‘Dirty Wu.’ It is a cinnamon sugar doughnut drizzled with honey and Nutella. It was so good. I just won the Oscar in the sci-fi world.
I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.
To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.
When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I’m a long distance runner.
I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.
You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody’s office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.
The team behind ‘The Lego Movie’ approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee ‘Everything is Awesome.’ They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.
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.
‘Champagne’ and ‘breathmint’ are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.
Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.
I’m not going to turn down an Oscar, but I’m not strategizing for one.
You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.
I’d love to one day win an Oscar just as much as one day I’d like to win a Grammy.
If you buy a lottery ticket, you really don’t expect to win. However, if you do win, it’s a different story. The same is true about getting an Oscar. Of course I knew I was nominated, but I never expected my name to be called. When it was, I’m still at a loss to describe the feelings that I experienced.
When my kids love my work, I feel elated and victorious; it means more to me than an Oscar. And when they are silent, I’m proud that they have a mind and perspective of their own and are courageous enough not to say things just to please me.
I would never watch the Oscar ceremony.
I’ve been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for ‘From Here To Eternity.’ David Bowie in ‘Man Who Fell to Earth,’ Kris Kristofferson’s been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in ‘Precious.’
I want to get married before I’m 30. And I’d like to win an Oscar before then.
I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.
The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor’s life. Twelve months later they ask, ‘Who won the Oscar last year?’
Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
‘Argo,’ ‘Lincoln,’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.
I’ve been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I’ve had a couple of TV series. I’ve continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.
I’ve always been fascinated by Oscar Wilde.
In my previous profession, when I was a producer, scriptwriter and actor, I wanted to get an Oscar, I wanted to be popular in the U.S.A.
I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: ‘Oh God, I’ve peaked.’
I’m prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar!
Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you’ve been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It’s like nothing else on earth. I’m writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.
I was afraid I would get the Oscar for ‘Irma La Douce’ because it was popular. But I didn’t want to because I didn’t really think it was that good.
One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars.
I’d like to win an Oscar.
Even if I hadn’t have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.
I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: ‘What is that doing there?’
Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
If you’ve been nominated for an Oscar, it would be ridiculous to say you didn’t want to win. It would be lovely to have one of those statues.
The 20-year goal is to be a film director. The 15-year goal is to win an Oscar. The five-year goal is to just keep enjoying myself.
Having ‘Oscar winner’ on your tombstone is a great thing.
I didn’t work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.
I think once a year it’s good to look back at the history of Oscar and to embrace the great work that everybody’s done this year and set it in place to the great work that’s gone on before us.
The women at all levels of the entertainment industry – from interns to Oscar winners – who kept quiet to protect their careers should be a lesson to every CEO and HR department.
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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.
‘Wall Street’ was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film ‘Fatal Attraction’ came right after it.
This Oscar Pistorius business is interesting. There is this cult of carrying lots of guns and being ready to shoot somebody. There were people I knew had guns and carried them openly around Johannesburg. It is frowned on now to carry a gun, but Pistorius and co. got away with it.
