Laura Dern Quotes

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.

I loved the Oscars, and I had V.H.S. tapes for the Oscars, and I used to watch them over and over. There was probably one year where I watched it, like, 20 times or something.

Awards season is big for me - I love following all the films and who might be nominated.

What usually happens on the Oscar telecast is that as soon as best picture is announced, everyone is up out of their seats and running off to their parties.

'The Joy Luck Club' is not a perfect film. But, I distinctly remember watching it with my mom - and bursting into tears after the screening!

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

Born in the silent era, with the first ceremony hosted by Douglas Fairbanks at the Roosevelt Hotel, the Oscars are a tradition in a business that doesn't have much of it, and the biggest spectacle in a business that's often nothing but.

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

I'd like to win an Oscar.

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.