Quotes About Oscar Awards

#1. My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

Venus Williams

#2. Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome.

Marion Parker

#3. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#4. Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

Terry Pratchett

#5. If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in carriages, you would. But not you! I know you. You'll have your mouthful of rum tomorrow, and go hang.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#6. Governments like it that way. They want their people to see war as a drama of opposites, good and evil, "them" and "us," victory or defeat. But war is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

Robert Fisk

#7. History displays the events of time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

Margaret Cho

#9. For all his ego and mendacity, Moore is immensely popular. He's got an Oscar, more film awards than we can easily count, and a following whose blindest followers resemble cult members. Like a cult, the Moore movement shares the drive to recruit converts....

David T. Hardy

#10. My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, 'That's it-let's get the hell outta here.'

Bill Murray

#11. Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

James Joyce

#12. At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

Mercedes McCambridge

#13. Men should be buff! Women should be vavoom!

Hiromu Arakawa

#14. An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

Alejandro Amenabar

#15. Satisfaction is dead weight.

Yonason Goldson

#16. I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

Helen Mirren

#17. I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

A.R. Rahman

#18. If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received - and my Oscar is in a place of honor.

Sophia Loren

#19. You always want to have good balance. That's the key to winning a Super Bowl. You look at the teams who have won championships, you got to have balance. So, to be able to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively is what gives you the chance to win a world championship.

John Elway

#20. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

Stephen Fry

#21. I must work the works of Him Who sent me while it is yet day.

Sheldon Jackson

#22. In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

Sigourney Weaver

#23. A STRANGE MOON WORD

Laini Taylor

#24. PPPS. I hope Butterbur sends this promptly. A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried. If he forgets, I shall roast him.

J.R.R. Tolkien