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I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience. -- Kevin Smith
I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus. -- Steven Cojocaru
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
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 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
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.
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
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
The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well. -- Brenda Blethyn
Academy Awards don't really solve anything. -- Richard LaGravenese
I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious. -- Charlize Theron
I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards. -- Sacheen Littlefeather
Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover. -- Bob Hope
Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards. -- Andrea Martin
I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category. -- Tom Hanks
For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me, -- Luise Rainer
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
Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please. -- Henny Youngman
Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe. -- Brad Goreski
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me. -- Matt Stone
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.' -- Matt Stone
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award. -- Sally Kellerman
Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot. -- David Letterman
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 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
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'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
As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show. -- Johnny Carson
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
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
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
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
The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white. -- David Letterman
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
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'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
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
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. -- Ben Kingsley
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
There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York. -- Steve Martin
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 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 was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs. -- Bjork
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
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 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
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
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
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
My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around. And my dad was a huge fan of Ray Harryhausen. One of our neighbors, who went on to win several Academy Awards, was close friends with my dad. His name is Phil Tippett. -- Robert Stromberg
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party. -- Kathy Griffin

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