Lee Daniels Quotes

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.

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

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.

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

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?'

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

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

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?'

I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the Oscars was the biggest one.

For me, growing up in Indiana with cornfields and churches, I was always very intrigued by the Academy Awards - they were a big event. That was the one night of the year when all of the glittering movie stars got together, and I used to love that night because, as a child, it was a way to dream for me.

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

I saw Adrien Brody's Oscar speech and was moved to tears.

Award season is such an exciting time of the year and I enjoy seeing who is nominated, who wins and - like most women - the fashions.

What I really want is an Oscar.

I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and wait for it.

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.

Cannes is one of the biggest film festivals across the globe, and getting your film selected for a screening is quite a big achievement.