Quotes About Success

What I really want is an Oscar.

You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you engage with it; you go on the David Letterman show, and you do the interviews, and that's how you get out there.

Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations?

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

Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?' No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud.

You can win your Oscar, and you still wake up trying to figure out how to get your next job.

I'm very proud of my New York debut. I played Oscar Wilde in 'Gross Indecency' off Broadway in about 1997. And I was very proud of my Broadway debut in 'The Iceman Cometh.'

My family and I grew up watching and admiring Oscar De La Hoya and to now be fighting under his promotional banner is a dream come true.

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

Every actor wants to win an Oscar.

I needed Oscar De La Hoya to get motivated.

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.

You must remember that I won an Oscar for my role Johnny Eager. Then I went into the Army. But before I did, I was rushed into three other pictures to capitalize on the first.

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

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

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

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.

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

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.

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.