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A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'. -- Morgan Freeman
Academy Awards don't really solve anything. -- Richard LaGravenese
I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious. -- Charlize Theron
Not everything's made to win an Academy Award. -- Samuel L. Jackson
I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards. -- Sacheen Littlefeather
I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award -- Laraine Day
I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award. -- Laraine Day
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of, -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.' -- Todd Phillips
I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award. -- Denzel Washington
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. -- Dustin Hoffman
Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting. -- Shirley Knight
Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award. -- Roger Ross Williams
I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American. -- Michael Caine
What does the Academy Award mean? I don't think it means much of anything. -- Sally Field
Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards. -- Andrea Martin
It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award. -- Malcolm McDowell
For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me. -- Luise Rainer
White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. -- Paul Mooney
The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. -- George C. Scott
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. -- Rachael Taylor
I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience. -- Kevin Smith
Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please. -- Henny Youngman
I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool. -- Rene Russo
Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe. -- Brad Goreski
Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. -- Bill Murray
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. -- Bill Murray
My dad sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.' -- Mark Ruffalo
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.' -- Matt Stone
I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus. -- Steven Cojocaru
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award. -- Sally Kellerman
The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy Award voter with a tampon in her purse. -- Joan Rivers
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig. -- Aaron Sorkin
I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm. -- Jon Stewart
At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars - and worst-dressed stars. But it's the worst-dressed that go down in history. -- Brad Goreski
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. -- Robert Osborne
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards. -- Annie Proulx
You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing 'Crank,' and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done. -- Jason Statham
You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture. -- Jeff Foxworthy
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! -- Angela Lansbury
To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office. -- Don Simpson
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'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy. -- Jayne Mansfield
I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy. -- Luise Rainer
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. -- Clint Eastwood
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. -- Bob Hope
I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid. -- Alex Ebert
Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academy Awards, and it would never be as much fun as the show. -- Kevin Connolly
You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time. -- Julia Phillips
I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable. -- Pat Morita
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. -- William Peter Blatty
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again. -- Joanne Woodward
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 -- William Peter Blatty
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. -- Marlee Matlin
It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted. -- Tara Reid
If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations. -- Burt Reynolds
I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award. -- Al Pacino
I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever. -- Barry Levinson
Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal. -- Rob Lowe
If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. -- Peter Jackson
It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.' -- Tara Reid
people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin. -- Charles Bukowski
A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise. -- Mickey Rourke
The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened. -- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast I can't remember what I said or what happened. -- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before. -- Adrien Brody
The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture. -- Suzanne Fields
I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife. -- Rachael Taylor
I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays. -- Leigh-Allyn Baker
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. -- Steven Wright
Iâ??ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career Iâ??d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination. -- Ansel Elgort
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. -- Robert Osborne
Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. -- Harvey Korman
The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world. -- James Cromwell
I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for "LA Confidential" which was great. -- Garry Marshall
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. -- Alfonso Cuaron
I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement. -- John Hawkes
It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script. -- Michael Caine
Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you, not me, not the girl next door - who wouldn't like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night. -- Sue Mengers
I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, i remember Clifford Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears. -- Anna Held
I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'. -- Ki Hong Lee
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. -- Edward Norton
There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. -- Lili Taylor
To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards. -- Charles J. Shields
Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story. -- Melissa Rosenberg
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. -- Nathan Sawaya
Now there are reports that Osama bin Laden would like to commit suicide on television. This is the kind of lead-in I have been praying for every since I came to CBS. Bin Laden is planning a televised suicide or, as I call it, hosting the Academy Awards. -- David Letterman
If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best! -- Dana Hill
For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.' -- Robert Osborne
Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me. -- Kate Winslet
Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and that focus translates into people buying tickets to see movies or download films, legitimately download them. And it keeps us all at work. So I'm a big fan of award shows. -- Liam Neeson
I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl. -- Harvey Weinstein
Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for 'Kramer vs Kramer.' -- Wentworth Miller
I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award? -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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