Graham Moore Quotes

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

When I was nominated for the Oscar, I was absolutely positive that Judy Garland would win for 'Judgment at Nuremberg,' and then they call my name, and I was absolutely paralyzed. And I remember walking down to the stage and saying to myself, 'Don't run. It's not dignified.'

I've been invited to the Grammys with other friends who were nominated. I'm like, 'Naw, I'm not gonna go until it's my time.' And who knew it was gonna be, like, the next year? It's crazy.

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I'm nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

I was joking the other day about how my real life feels like a TV show, and my TV life feels real - because, to be on Thursday nights on NBC, which is what I grew up with, has been such a big part of inspiring me. To be part of that tradition is really completely surreal, and I'm so grateful.

I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

When I won the Emmy, the profound sense of gratitude when my name was said I cannot express enough. It was one of the most beautiful moments, hands down, of my life.

Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write.

After 'Fukrey,' when a filmmaker came to narrate a film to me, I started crying. It was a dream come true moment for me.

It was crazy to say that I have the guidance of Paul Heyman out of all these people. Eight-year-old real me is like, is this real life?