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In Hollywood, Oscar is king -- David Letterman
I'd like to win an Oscar. -- Vanessa Hudgens
Oscar Wilde would have been like, 'laaaad'. -- Laura Gledhill
The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility. -- Joe Orton
When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde. -- Camille Paglia
Will this coffee get me an Oscar? -- Leonardo DiCaprio
I would love to win an Oscar. -- Britney Spears
Some of my best friends are Oscar Wilde. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No good deed goes unpunished - Oscar Wilde -- Allen Mack
I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless. -- Nicole Richie
I actually had to learn what an Oscar was. -- Quvenzhane Wallis
I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! -- Jennifer Hudson
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. -- E. M. Forster
Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me. -- Herbie Hancock
They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject. -- Linda Fiorentino
Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard. -- Count Basie
It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff. -- Shirley Horn
Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing. -- George Clooney
It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe. -- Tobey Maguire
Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar, -- Luis Bunuel
The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get. -- Paul Young
I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar. -- Bonnie McKee
I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time. -- Jean Simmons
My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this. --
For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar. -- Daniela Pestova
Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today. -- Herbie Hancock
I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist. -- Whoopi Goldberg
I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.' -- George Steinbrenner
Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved. -- Mickey Rourke
'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear. -- Michael Moore
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix. -- Alexander Woollcott
I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night. -- Glenn Close
There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure. -- Alexander Woollcott
The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize. -- Janet Maslin
I never won an Oscar... and the Oscars never won Irene Papas -- Irene Papas
Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings. -- Kathy Bates
I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar. -- Jack Lemmon
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I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING. -- Marlee Matlin
Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering. -- Bob Hope
I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar. -- Bai Ling
You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before. -- Meryl Streep
I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep. -- Megan Fox
The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated, -- Juanita Moore
One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous. -- Marian McPartland
Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze. -- Daryl Hannah
One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar. -- Clive Sinclair
Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one. -- Brett Ratner
I think I have a better chance at getting an Oscar before a Grammy. -- Bow Wow
The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances. -- George Cukor
All the quips in the world couldn't prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool. -- David Levithan
The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general. -- Carol Kane
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. -- Elizabeth Banks
If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking. -- Michael Caine
I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day... -- Janet Jackson
If every witty thing that's said was true, Oscar Wilde, the world would worship You! -- Michael R. Burch
I think most people have that out of body experience when they win the Oscar. -- Sandra Bullock
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar. -- Michael Caine
I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people. -- Jennifer Hudson
Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun. -- Nora Ephron
The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy. -- Kathy Bates
My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went. -- Beau Bridges
[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous. -- Ice Cube
Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. -- Norman Jewison
I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts. -- Steve Zahn
The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that. -- Jeff Bridges
I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then. -- Lindsay Lohan
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I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night. -- Halle Berry
If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one. -- Roger Ebert
When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British. -- Brenda Fricker
A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial. -- Peter Capaldi
Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them. -- Morgan Freeman
It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there. -- Idris Elba
The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun. -- Roger Ebert
I'm not going to get an Oscar at 30 - that's done. So I'll think of something else. -- Shirley Henderson
Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier. -- Robin Williams
It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that. -- Phil Collins
A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde. -- Todd Haynes
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't. -- Judi Dench
My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me. -- Ashley Madekwe
My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar. -- Conrad Hall
I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to. -- Juliette Binoche
Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed. -- Marcello Mastroianni
You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator. -- Joel Siegel
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out. -- Michael Caine
You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special. -- Rita Moreno
I went from everyone saying, "She-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that! -- Keira Knightley
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.' -- Sarah Bernhardt
I would like to be an actress in Hollywood and win an Oscar. The only difference is my height. -- Jyoti Amge
I have several [favorite clothes designers], but I like to wear Akris, Oscar De La Renta and Giorgio Armani. -- Condoleezza Rice
Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar. -- Billy Crystal
I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar. -- Christine Lahti
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country. -- Deniz Gamze Erguven
Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary. -- Duncan Roy
It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar. -- Jerry Della Femina
People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar, but it's up to you what choices you make. -- Rachel Weisz
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Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. -- Brenda Blethyn
I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar. -- Val Kilmer
We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail. -- Steven Cojocaru
There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining. -- Nick Park
Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar -- Dean Cavanagh
The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry. -- Frank Capra
I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining. -- Truman Capote
I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try. -- Nathan Sawaya
I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is. -- Bob Hope
The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations. -- Jack Paar
If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Tom McCarthy said to me, 'Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man.' -- Mark Ruffalo
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
Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde. -- Mara Wilson
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles. -- Julia Stiles
I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too. -- Queen Latifah
My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for The Social Network. -- Liberty Ross
There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar. -- Juicy J
As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe. -- Jim Coleman

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