Oscars Quotes

“Celebrities are like the stars with one major difference:
The stars shine TOGETHER,
Celebrities hate EACH OTHER!”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar”
― Dean Cavanagh

“I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar but I think if you aim to be rewarded in your life you'll get nowhere. I think that the biggest reward is the work itself and what you get out of it and the connections you make with other people.”
― Natalie Portman

“Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues.”
― Billy Crystal

“If your dream is all about winning an ‪#oscar‬, a ‪‎grammy‬, an ‪#emmy‬, or another award, give up and quit now!
Why dream for accolades, awards, recognition or celebrity status?
Dream to learn, achieve, grow, sustain and succeed.
You will be a happier person in life over trying to define your success or your dream by what others think of you.”
― Loren Weisman

“The world is glacial when it comes to recognising talent.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The foundation of Hollywood alchemically turned celluloid into gold and insincerity into an art form.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status.”
― C.Z. Hazard, Not In The Eye

“On Friday evening Martin and Mona went to the United Artists Theatre to see a film already being mentioned for the Academy award. It had three stars, ran a hundred and ten minutes, and bored them both to petrifaction. (In brief, the award was in the bag.)
The Case of the Seven of Calvary”
― Anthony Boucher

“IF HE CAN'T SEE WHERE HE IS, THEN HE CAN'T TALK ABOUT WHERE HE IS”
― Tim Heidecker

“Popularity at the box office did not translate into support from [director John Sturges'] peers in the Academy. In February, when Oscar nominations were announced, The Great Escape had to make do with one, for [Ferris] Webster’s editing. Paramount’s Hud and UA’s Tom Jones, which would bring Tony Richardson the best-director Oscar, dominated the field. Sturges’s rightful place in the best-picture category was taken by 20th Century Fox’s Cleopatra, a lavish flop.”
― Glenn Lovell, Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges

“I guess you never saw The Unholy Rollers either. Greatest roller derby movie of all time.”

“Wow, that’s quite an achievement. How many Oscars did it win?”
― Scott Von Doviak, Lowdown Road

“He inquired with the confidence of anyone trying free samples at a grocery store and putting on an Oscar-worthy performance of a person that was going to come back and buy it all later.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Call me old-fashioned, but The Shape of Water is a tour de force. Maddening. Heartfelt. Sick. Nostalgic. An Ode to Todd McCarthy, Arnold Glassman, and Stuart Samuels’ documentary film, Visions of Light. By all means, take a bow.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“The Nobel prizes are the Oscars of science.”
― Steven Magee

“I was fortunate to be a teenager in the nineteen eighties. Back then we had romance, even if it was only in our minds and not real. We had Hollywood, the Oscars, real movie stars, famous authors, and the Olympics. Now, of course, we know that was all just a façade.”
― Jack Freestone

“I don’t dislike actors. But they are overhyped and glorified with fame and fortune. Actors simply read lines and change their facial expressions. Even then they usually need a director to tell them how to do it. It could be argued that actors are not creators or are at best secondary creators. Actors create something from something, usually a prewritten script. Whereas sculptors will create something from the raw material of the earth only using their hands and no other tools. In this regard sculptors are higher creators than painters, and painters are higher creators than musicians or writers who use symbols and tools to create. Actors however are the lowest of all creators. Perhaps that helps to explain why Hitchcock said, ‘Actors should be treated as cattle.’ Actors get acting jobs, just as a lawyer gets a legal job, but creative artists create. Lawyers do not create the law, parliament and judges do. They simply interpret and apply the law as part of their job. Similarly, actors do not create the words or the story. They simply interpret and apply the words from the script.”

“Yes, it’s true. Many actors are jealous of other artists. That’s why so many actors seek out those roles. Those artists have an X factor, which we do not.”

“But you never did?”

“Did what?”

“Played a role as a writer, or painter, or a musician?”

“I was never offered those roles.”

“Why not?”

“Not enough X factor?” she asked.

We both smiled.

“No Oscar?” I asked.

“No Oscar,” she replied. “Life is unfair.”

“The biggest lies, the biggest prize,” I said.

“What do you mean?”

“It was never just about performance or entertainment. Movies mostly carried agendas which the cult wished to promote. The actors who were happy promoting those agendas without question, without any moral standards, were the ones who received the Oscars. And it was not just limited to the movie industry. Nobel Peace prizes, Grammys, in some cases Olympic gold medals. The movies that won the Oscars usually carried the biggest lies. AIDS, space travel, wars, aliens, and the actors who won them were the most corrupt.”
― Jack Freestone, The Pures