Quotes About Oscar Night

#1. Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

Jordana Brewster

#2. The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.

Dick Cavett

#3. There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

Nick Park

#4. Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.

Ann Coulter

#5. I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.

Glenn Close

#6. It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

Idris Elba

#7. Well, she wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of desperation in a woman.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

Oscar Wilde

#9. This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

Oscar Wilde

#10. One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Oh, do not cease at all; I thought the nightingale sang but at night; or if thou needst must cease, then let my lips touch the sweet lips that can such music make.

Oscar Wilde

#12. A goal without action is like a late night dream.

Debasish Mridha

#13. I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends ... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Oscar Levant

#14. Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.

Bob Hope

#15. The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.

Kelly Wearstler

#16. I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored ... and I'm gonna put [my Oscar] in my hand and kiss it every night before I go to sleep.

Quvenzhane Wallis

#17. They take their punishment so well, so cheerfully: I go out with an adder in my heart, and an asp in my tongue, and every night I sow thorns in the garden of my soul.

Oscar Wilde

#18. I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.

Dustin Hoffman

#19. We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

Oscar Peterson

#20. Oscar always opens up doors, especially the night of the Oscars. On that night, you hold that gold man, and it's like having Gandalf's staff. You can go anywhere and do anything. It's a talisman of such power.

Alex Gibney

#21. I run my hands down her bare arms. Shoulders to elbows to wrists. She has goose bumps, even in the muggy Florida night. Maybe that's because of me.
Sometimes I forget she likes me the same way I like her.

Pam Bachorz

#22. I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space ... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

Halle Berry

#23. Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

Kate Winslet

#24. I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

Gary Oldman

#25. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Oscar Wilde

#26. You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

Oscar Wilde

#27. What sort of life would his be if, day and night, shadows of his crime were to peer at him from silent corners, to mock him from secret places, to whisper in his ear as he sat at the feast, to wake him with icy fingers as he lay asleep!

Oscar Wilde

#28. To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played. To-night,

Oscar Wilde

#29. I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.

Halle Berry

#30. We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.

Oscar Romero

#31. Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off ... p 207

Oscar Wilde

#32. I pray at night, and I believe God has given me the gift to be able to perform in front of millions and millions of fans around the world. My faith in God has given me the opportunity to provide for my family and hopefully for generations to come.

Oscar Gutierrez

#33. Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

Oscar Wilde

#34. I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

Halle Berry

#35. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

Oscar Wilde

#36. I lost one illusion last night. I thought I had no heart. I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old. And it spoils one's career at critical moments.

Oscar Wilde

#37. And all the while the burning lime Eats flesh and bone away, It eats the brittle bone by night, And the soft flesh by day, It eats the flesh and bone by turns, But it eats the heart alway.

Oscar Wilde

#38. Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.

Oscar De La Renta

#39. I don't see anybody here to-night whom one could possibly call a serious purpose.

Oscar Wilde

#40. The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.

Oscar Wilde

#41. He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

Oscar Wilde