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  • I don't think I will ever be able to really articulate how bizarre it was to hear my name at the Academy Awards. I'd watched in my pajamas the year before! I felt numb - dazed and confused. I remember feeling light - weightless. More like limbo than cloud nine. At first I was like, This is my statue; nobody gets to touch it. And by midnight I was like, Please, someone, take this statue; it's too heavy! So I gave it to my brother, and he went off with it.

    Source: www.glamour.com
  • I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'

    Couple   Party   Awards  
    "Interview: Trey Parker and Matt Stone". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.
  • I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

    Awards   House   Cider  
    "Michael Caine: 'I Spent My Life Doing Something That I Love'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, peconicpublicbroadcasting.org. May 30, 2013.
  • Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

    Interview with Reed Tucker, www.esquire.com. March 30, 2007.
  • 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

  • I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

    Winning   Awards   Film  
    "On Twitter, filmmaker Kevin Smith is a superstar". Interview with Erin Biba, www.wired.com. February 22, 2010.
  • I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

  • Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

    Winning   Awards   Body  
    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

    "For Better Or Worse, Chris Rock Made The Oscars As Black As He Possibly Could". "All Things Considered" with Eric Deggans, www.npr.org. February 29, 2016.
  • I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

    Source: www.getfrank.co.nz
  • We just constantly worked on second Saw film, it's not an Academy award level film, but we worked as hard we could to make it plausible.

    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

  • Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

    Awards   Video   Firsts  
  • A person who actually knows how to wear clothes...they would look good in any clothes. You see this especially at the Academy Awards. Even if the dresses are beautiful and expensive and important, the actresses can't always carry them. Sometimes I feel like saying to them, "Act! You know how to act, you're an actor. You're about to win an award for, I don't know, convincingly playing that Venezuelan nun who went to war. Now act like you can wear this dress.".

    Beautiful   War   Winning  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.

    Awards   House   Welcome  
    "Oscar host Alec Baldwin may also be nominee" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 30, 2009.
  • I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

  • The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

    Dirty   Awards   Contests  
    "Oscars Speeches: Top 10 That Were Super Gracious" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2015.
  • Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

    Father   Memorable   Men  
    "Flashback: Robin Williams’ 1998 Oscar Acceptance Speech" by David Humphreys, etcanada.com. August 12, 2014.
  • At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

  • The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.

    Winning   Nba   Awards  
    "Has The Academy Awards Turned A Page On #OscarsSoWhite?". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. February 27, 2017.
  • I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

    Games   Awards   Cards  
  • I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

    Mean   Awards   Age  
  • Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.

    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus.

    Awards   Want   Pay  
    "Interview with Steven Cojocaru, 'People'". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. March 25, 2002.
  • The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

    Awards   Two   Meat  
    "Oscar no-shows: 9 Hollywood stars who snubbed the Academy Awards" by Gina Vivinetto, www.today.com. February 21, 2017.
  • I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

    Winning   Awards   Looks  
  • I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

    Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. January 31, 2011.
  • Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

    Father   Awards   Pigs  
    "Oscars: As It Happened". Oscar Acceptance Speech, www.empireonline.com. February 28, 2011.
  • I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

    Distance   Awards   Years  
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