Rita Moreno Quotes

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

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 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.

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'd like to win an Oscar.

What I really want is an Oscar.

I was amazed to go Oscar and win it. It was fantastic getting up on the stage there and looking down. I thought, "That guy looks like Steve Martin, and that guy's like Arnold Schwarzenegger." But it was Steve Martin, and it was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then they have this terrible kind of conveyor belt backstage - literally - where they take you to this big hangar where the world's press are gathered, and they make you stand on a stage, and they introduce you.

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

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

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

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.

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

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

Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

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.

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

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

I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.

If you've been nominated for an Oscar, it would be ridiculous to say you didn't want to win. It would be lovely to have one of those statues.

The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.

The two moments that I felt the most nervous in my entire life were when I first had reading rehearsal for 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' and when I was at the Academy Awards ceremony.