Mickey Rourke Quotes

Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.

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

I really don't think about the Oscars.

I'd love to one day win an Oscar just as much as one day I'd like to win a Grammy.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

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.

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

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

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

I love working with Oscar winners.

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 took the Oscars very seriously as a child.

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.

What I really want is an Oscar.

The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.

In Hollywood, Oscar is king.

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

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.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

I have a Tony Award now. It hasn't changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and TV stuff, where people will see me more easily now because they know me.

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.

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.