Quotes About Success

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.

When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected.

Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.

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

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

I'd like to win an Oscar.

I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

I've always wanted to appear in a 3-D Movie, that's always been a goal of mine. If you appear in a 3-D picture you are a shoo-in for an Oscar. There's no competition.

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

I have an Oscar on my mantel.

You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.

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

One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

I think for most actors, because we sort of have to tell ourselves this, we always say, 'Oh, it doesn't mean anything to win an Oscar!' It certainly isn't a goal that you want to set yourself up for, because then you're just setting yourself up for disaster. Because how many people actually win an Oscar?

I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

If they didn't have an Oscar for people to shoot for, all they'd do is be making 'Dumb And Dumber' again and again.

Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying.

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'

I would like to be an actress in Hollywood and win an Oscar. The only difference is my height.

I literally don't think about Oscar.