Oscar Winner Quotes

The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

Liz Taylor was an amazing woman and screen legend. She was an incredible friend to my brother, at his side through some of his most difficult times and of course loved by his children and our family. She will live on in our hearts forever, my prayers go out to her family.

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'.

Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.

Meryl Streep is on the program tonight. I like to throw her a little work whenever I can.

I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

Angelina Jolie is my favorite. I've never met her before, but I just know she's amazing.

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

I don't know what to do with Warren Beatty. All I know is that he wasn't attracted to me. That's all right.

A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.

Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

I thought 'The King's Speech' was great.

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

Hopefully, after 'Victorious' has lived a long and beautiful life, I would like to go into movies. And I'd like to have a very successful movie career. Ultimately I'd love to win an Oscar; that's my big goal in life, so that's what I'm going for.

I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.

Shirley MacLaine: what an asshole.

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.

As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.