Top 1200 Academy Award Quotes & Sayings

The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

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."

I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.

I started at the top. My first job was the cover of 'Italian Vogue,' which is the equivalent essentially of winning an Academy Award. So, there was nowhere else to go from there.

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.

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

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

I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if I can do it, then any kid can do it.

After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come.

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.

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

I realize we're not curing diseases with 'iCarly,' and we're not doing Shakespeare. It's not an Academy Award-winning film, but it has definitely touched people universally.

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.

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

I know one thing; I'll never win an Academy Award.

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

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.

Not everything's made to win an Academy Award.

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.

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

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.'

I love to perform at various award functions and one day I would like to open a dance academy.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

An award, to me, means a bonus. It's not that an actor works for an award. I don't work for an award. But, when you get an award, it is encouraging and inspiring and reminds you that you need to do well.

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.

I was nominated for a live-action short-film Academy Award in 2003.

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

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.

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

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.'

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

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!

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

'Silicon Valley' is a great show. It might be the best comedy on television. And if the Academy feels I have stood out to the point of deserving an award, I won't pawn it.

I turned down 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brody' with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award.

I feel very, very upset that, when it came time for me to get an Academy Award, that I didn't especially thank Clint Eastwood.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC.

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.

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.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.

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

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

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.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool.

The best thing that winning those Academy Awards things are - the best thing of it is that when I say some of my ideas, somebody's going to listen to it, and they'll preface what I say, 'Academy Award winner da-da-da-da-da.'

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

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

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.

I want to become a movie director and win an Academy Award. That's what I'm trying to do.

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.