Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

- Herbie Hancock

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

- Michael Caine

The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.

- Luise Rainer

This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.

- Lisa Cholodenko

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

- Lindsay Lohan

It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.

- Judy Holliday

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

- Juliette Binoche

I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar!

- Jennifer Hudson

I have an Oscar on my mantel.

- Irwin Winkler

It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.

- Hugh Hudson

My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me.

- Ashley Madekwe

When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

- Helena Bonham Carter

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

- Ennio Morricone

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

- Ellen Burstyn

Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

- Daryl Hannah

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

- Carice van Houten

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

- Cate Blanchett

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

- Brett Ratner

Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'.

- Anthony Anderson

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