Quotes About Recognition

One of my first real parts was 'Crash' - that won the Oscar.

Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.

I'm incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar.

After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.

What usually happens on the Oscar telecast is that as soon as best picture is announced, everyone is up out of their seats and running off to their parties.

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

There are actors who have never gotten an Oscar and have done amazing work.

Every actor wants to win an Oscar.

Stuntmen bring a lot to the film industry, especially in action films, but if you start trying to give an Oscar for a stuntman, say he doubled a star, I think that takes away from the star's value.

I didn't set out to win an Oscar, of course, but to be in this conversation, it's somehow an honour and a strange life experience as well.

I would never watch the Oscar ceremony.

I really don't care about the Oscars.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.

I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

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.

It's not about what's a good or bad score at the Oscars, rather what's exposed to the ears more.

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.

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

The success of Indian music at the Oscars is a great achievement.

I ain't gonna win no Oscars.

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win... not many.

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