Quotes About Oscar

For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

When I won the Oscar, I fell into that mind-set that this is a precious role. People everywhere were shouting, 'Show me the money!' I just didn't want anything that could parody the fact that I was like a tagline in a movie. So when Steven Spielberg offered me 'Amistad,' I said no; when 'Hotel Rwanda' came along, I said no.

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

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

The English country gentleman galloping after the fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is out of date. Life goes faster than Realism, but Romanticism is always in front of Life.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.

That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation, does it not? – Yes dear, if you can believe him. – I don't. But that does not affect the wonderful beauty of his answer.

I have no ambition to play the part of a mother, and why should I interfere with her illusions? I find it hard enough to keep my own.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

I am not going to Egypt,' said the bird. 'I am going to the House of Death.' He kissed the prince and fell down dead at his feet.

Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.

Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about

Are all men bad? Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good.

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

She has the fascinating tyranny of youth, and the astonishing courage of innocence. 

Who had a large wardrobe of Humour's cast-off clothes

Meredith is a prose Browning. So is Browning.