#oscar

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#energy #films #first #five #i

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand. ↗

— George C. Scott

#careers #did #died #get #got

You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator. ↗

— Joel Siegel

#ago #believe #crowe #gladiator #oscar

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18. ↗

— Neil Simon

#always #came #day #first #his

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.' ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#i #mr #only #oscar #percent

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#before #double #had #oscar #win

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#awhile #been #couple #getting #i

... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English." Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right. ↗

— Andrew Elfenbein

#oscar-wilde #respect

[On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#epigrams #humor #oscar-wilde #tribute #wit

people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or the lack of imagination. Faithlessness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the intellectual life,—simply a confession of failure. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#gray #inspirational #oscar #wilde #imagination