Academy Awards Quotes

I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

I love working with Oscar winners.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar; I would love to get nominated again.

Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.

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?'

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Steven Spielberg was a huge part of my childhood, like everyone's, I guess.

I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.

I always felt like the Academy was very late in acknowledging things. I've seen them do it with hip hop when it should have been acknowledged. It was already penetrating mass levels of culture and radio, and yet they wouldn't give it a proper category.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

You never make movies for Oscars.

I love Woody Harrelson. He's a fine actor.

An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.

I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.

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

To me, there were comedies that should go up for Oscars. I think Eddie Murphy in 'The Nutty Professor' was one of the greatest acting performances of all time, but it'd never be recognized that way. They always go for De Niro and Pacino, but Eddie Murphy played seven different people!

I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.