Quotes for All
I’m sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock’s face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as … Read more
Just because you’ve made a couple movies, you’ve done some good movies, you’ve been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody’s entitled. It’s a business. If they don’t see it, I can think they’re wrong, but I’m not entitled to a \$15 million budget to make a film. Edward Norton
I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously – he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting. Ed Begley, Jr.
A person who actually knows how to wear clothes…they would look good in any clothes. You see this especially at the Academy Awards. Even if the dresses are beautiful and expensive and important, the actresses can’t always carry them. Sometimes I feel like saying to them, \”Act! You know how to act, you’re an actor. … Read more
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. Dustin Hoffman
We just constantly worked on second Saw film, it’s not an Academy award level film, but we worked as hard we could to make it plausible. Donnie Wahlberg
I didn’t realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award. Denzel Washington
Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, ‘I didn’t expect this,’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot. David Letterman
Now there are reports that Osama bin Laden would like to commit suicide on television. This is the kind of lead-in I have been praying for every since I came to CBS. Bin Laden is planning a televised suicide or, as I call it, hosting the Academy Awards. David Letterman
The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It’s voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white. David Letterman