A. R. Rahman Quotes

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.

I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

I love working with Oscar winners.

I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.

I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

I really don't think about the Oscars.

An Oscar is a total honor. It's thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn't really mean anything. It's a moment in time.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.

Being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the names of some of my childhood heroes is slightly surreal and incredibly awesome.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.