Academy Award Quotes

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

Great, Best, Movies

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

Work, Good, Hope

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

Best, Mind, Job

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

Best, Old, Days

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
Bill Murray

Greatest, Written, Scripts

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

Amazing, Sleep, Through

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

Life, Best, Winning

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'
Todd Phillips

Writing, Award, Academy

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Dreams, Made, Stuff

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

Actually, Above, Earthquake

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

Time, Trying, Enough

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor

Forward, Winning, Movie

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.
Tatum O'Neal

Good, Dad, Pretty

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
Sally Kellerman

Amazing, Career, Beginning

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

Life, Love, Great

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

Best, Real, Actor

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

Thinking, Whatever, Talking

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

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

Work, Best, Winning

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

Time, Movies, Made

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

Winning, Career, Trying

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
Valerie Harper

Win, Put, Become

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