Philippe Falardeau Quotes

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

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

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

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

You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'

My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling.

An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'

I would hate to be in a situation where my entire focus was obsessing around the issue of whether we're going to win best picture.

Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.

The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.

I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.

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

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

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

To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.

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.