Julie Harris Quotes

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.

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

I'd like to win an Oscar.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

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.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

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?'

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

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

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

It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

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

I love working with Oscar winners.

I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'

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.'

It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'

What I really want is an Oscar.

I think I have a better chance at getting an Oscar before a Grammy.

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.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

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.