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A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you're doing a sitcom, people don't give you a lot of credit, because you've got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it's successful.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Credit
Drama
Sitcom
Weight
Your Keep People
Gain
Gain Weight
Oscar
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I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a student under Calvin Klein, my project was to make a coat, and then years later, I was hired at Calvin, by Calvin, to design coats for him. It came full circle!
Narciso Rodriguez / Fashion Designer
Design
Critics
Calvin Klein
Circle
Coat
Full
Student
Project
Hired
La
Oscar
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I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
Halle Berry / Actress
Boxes
Clothes
Night
Storage
Storage Space
Tombs
Die
Won
Minute
Oscar
Rid
Wore
Wrapped
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For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or 1960. I played Wilde in one, and Robert Morley was in the other. As it turned out, at that particular moment there was no market for any Oscar Wilde movie at all.
Peter Finch /
Movie
Particular
Peculiar
Wilde
Played
Films
Market
Oscar
Robert
Same Time
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I made films, like 'Shadow of the Vampire,' and I did not like the work I did on it and then Willem Dafoe was nominated for the Oscar. I made films like 'The Adventures of Pinocchio' with Martin Landau. I thought I would get nominated and it flopped. You never know.
Udo Kier / Actor
Shadow
Vampire
Work Never Know
Martin
Nominated
Oscar
Pinocchio
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I want to single out Kathryn Hahn's performance in Jill Soloway's film 'Afternoon Delight,' which in my opinion should have been nominated for an Oscar. I think it's one of the greatest female performances I've ever seen on screen, and I think she's wildly talented.
Amy Landecker /
Afternoon
Delight
Female
Opinion
Talented
In My Opinion
Performance
Nominated
Oscar
Screen
Wildly
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After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Height
Shampoo
Directing
Jump
Oscar
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Given the weight of an Oscar statuette, one made out of solid gold would be worth $219,000. That twinkle in a winner's eye would be more than just a realization that he or she is a decent actor; it would be the joy of holding a chunk of metal worth a new Lamborghini.
Kyle Hill /
Decent
Eye
Given
Gold
Joy
Realization
Weight
Winner
Chunk
He Or She
Holding
Solid
Metal
Oscar
Twinkle
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I consider Rahman as a great composer. I had a lump in my throat when I heard his name being announced. I thanked God that he got an Oscar for Original Score, that was more than enough for me. I wonder what might have happened to me if I had gone there. I might have cried.
Gulzar /
Composer
Cried
Heard
Score
Throat
Wonder
God Great Me
Announced
Original
Consider
Lump
Oscar
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When I was nominated for the Oscar, I was absolutely positive that Judy Garland would win for 'Judgment at Nuremberg,' and then they call my name, and I was absolutely paralyzed. And I remember walking down to the stage and saying to myself, 'Don't run. It's not dignified.'
Rita Moreno / Actress
Judgment
Nuremberg
Paralyzed
Absolutely
Dignified
Garland
Nominated
Oscar
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I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.
Emma Thompson / Actress
Friends
Men
Aids
Died
Good Friend
Health Care
Last Year
Years
Family Health Good
Afford
Lots
Moore
Oscar
Quite A Bit
Wealthy Family
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Al Pacino / Film Actor
Feelings
Gold
Medal
Olympics
Scent
Winning
Afterwards
Weeks
Won
Gold Medal
Guess
Oscar
Surprised
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I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.
Amy Bloom / Writer
Austen
Dickens
Jane
Wilde
Alice
Influenced
Oscar
Paintings
Short Stories
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It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of.
Michel Hazanavicius / Film Director
Recognition
Unique
French
Oscar
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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.
Quentin Tarantino / Film Director
Oscars
Oscar
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My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.
Kevin Spacey / Actor
Accepted
Oscars
Bottle
Oscar
Thank
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As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.
Gordon Ramsay / Chef
Chef
Excitement
Greater
Medal
Player
Pressure
Pushing
Soccer
Stars
Actor
Extreme
Creates
Cup
Importantly
Oscar
Plate
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Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
Gabourey Sidibe / Actress
Kids
Children
Compliment
Doors
Glad
Back Door
Door
Nod
Nominated
Oscar
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For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.
Michael Koryta / Author
Adapting
Book
Cold
Pleasure
Rivers
Silver
Terrific
Thinking
Tremendous
Mile
Nominated
Oscar
River
Scott
Screenplay
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No matter how successful you are, no matter how good you are at what you do, even if a golden path rolls out in front of your feet your whole life, there will come one particularly bleak Tuesday when you glance over at Facebook and notice that Jen From Down The Hall has just won an Oscar.
Alexandra Petri /
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Feet
Golden
Matter
Path
Successful
Tuesday
Whole
Life Good Path
Down
Won
Facebook
Particularly
Front
Glance
Hall
Over
Notice
Oscar
Rolls
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I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'
Peter Berg / Actor
Believer
Bowie
Bunch
Earth
Eternity
Streisand
Winning
Actor
David
Barbra Streisand
Big Believer
Films
Mariah Carey
Musicians
Oscar
Precious
Sinatra
Turned
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There are so many YA novels being made because there is so much young talent that can bring it to life. J-Law was one of the first females to do it with 'The Hunger Games,' and it's been going on for a while now. With J-Law, it was like, 'Hey, I'm Katniss,' and then, 'Hey, I just won an Oscar!'
Dexter Darden /
Hey
Hunger
Young Talent
Females
Hunger Games
Oscar
Ya
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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
Damian Lewis / Actor
Running
British
Cricket
Dinner
Latin
Party
Ready
Wilde
Amateur
Brought
Certainly
Dinner Parties
Held
One Or Two
Oscar
Parties
Quotes
Reasonably
Texts
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At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.
Angie Thomas /
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Oakland
Unarmed
Male
Life Death Time
Grant
More People
Oscar
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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?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead / Actress
Disaster
Mean
Setting
Thinking
Winning
Always Yourself People
How Many People
Oscar
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If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all time. But it really has to be exceptional in defining everything we previously knew about the actress or the actor.
Robert Downey, Jr. / Actor
Defining
Exceptional
Risk
Villain
Actress
Dismissed
Won
Heath
Performance
Oscar
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I am trying to do the best work I possibly can and making movies that will have resonance for years to come. I think if you try for an Oscar or a goal like that, the more people are going to see it as transparent. It's not on my radar. If it happens, great, but I'm happy to continue working as I am, really.
Leonardo Dicaprio / Actor
Best Work
Radar
Resonance
Transparent
Best Work Great
Making Movies
More People
Oscar
Possibly
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When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.
Martin Filler /
Birthday
Famous
Accomplishment
Astonishing
December
Died
Masters
Oscars
Survivor
Ten
Utopian
Architectural
Episode
Major
Oscar
Regarded
Twentieth
Universally
Whose
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And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'
Javier Bardem / Actor
Golden
Hands
Promotion
Reality
Sitting
Surreal
Two
Two Weeks
Oscar
Shelf
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In order for a person of color to get on a cover of a magazine, they have to do something prolific - winning an Oscar, being the first billionaire, you know, or whatever. I think it's becoming more natural that somebody can get on the cover of a magazine just because they're an amazing person. That's what it should be.
Kendrick Sampson /
Becoming
Billionaire
Color
Natural
Winning
Cover
Magazine
Oscar
Prolific
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Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth's home run record? No.
Monte Irvin / Baseball Player
Chance
Home
Alabama
Atlanta
Babe
Black
Break
Charleston
Given
Guy
Home Run
Might
Ruth
Had
Anybody
Played
Nobody
Center
Run
Day
Ever
Field
His
Record
Suppose
Mays
Oscar
Willie
Willie Mays
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I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Awe
Carpet
Ceremony
Film
Hindi
India
Long
Oscars
Red
Red Carpet
Speech
Want
Winning
Life God Moment
Life God Walk
Hold
Walk
Line
Magical
Moment
Oscar
Rehearsed
Trophy
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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.
Cuba Gooding, Jr. / Film Actor
Movie
Hotel
Mind Set
Parody
Rwanda
Shouting
Everywhere
Money Me People
Won
Offered
Oscar
Precious
Role
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
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I knew Chelsea had made some offers while I was at Shakhtar so when I eventually arrived here, after a short spell with Anzhi Makhachkala, it was amazing. Having David Luiz, Oscar and Ramires here when I joined was very important for me because they helped me a lot with the language and inside the club, so it was very helpful.
Willian /
Chelsea
Offers
David
Helped
Joined
Oscar
Spell
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I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.
Caroll Spinney /
Bird
Joey
Last Year
Puppeteer
Time Good Man
Agreed
Report
Discovered
Oscar
Plays
Same Time
Zip
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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.
Gabourey Sidibe / Actress
Celebrate
Night
Party
Should Have
Absolute
Event
Nominated
Oscar
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
Nate Berkus / Interior Designer
Dream
Boys
Brother
Careless
Desperate
Little Bit
Little Brother
Messy
My Own
Sticky
Boy
Pretty
Bit
Days
Exactly
Exactly The Way
Just A Little Bit
Room
Oscar
Shared
Strike
Supposed
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The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.
Daniel H. Wilson / Author
Carbon
Fiber
Legs
Upside Down
African
Amputated
Below
Mr
Fastest
Increasingly
Oscar
Poster
Poster Boy
South African
Sprinter
Upside
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They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 1992, they showed one: Oscar De La Hoya. In 1996, they didn't show it. In 2000, they didn't show it. In 2004, they didn't show it. In 2008, they did not even mention boxing at all. You would think the United States didn't have a boxing team in 2008.
Evander Holyfield / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Prime Time
Team
Thinking
La
Mention
Olympic
Oscar
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For a while, all the studios had their art-house divisions, but that went by the by pretty quickly. Now, they're really focusing on these huge blockbusters, spending a fortune on cartoon pictures and comic-strip movies and superhero movies, and they aren't making pictures like 'How Green Was My Valley,' which was an Oscar winner in its day.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Cartoon
Green
Spending
Studios
Superhero
Blockbusters
Divisions
Focusing
Oscar
Pictures
Quickly
Valley
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When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.
Caroll Spinney /
Alphabet
Bird
Goofy
Instance
Think Big
Useful
Bid
Jim
Oscar
Script
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