Acceptance Speeches, Hosts, & Funny Oscar Related Comments!
I haven't had an orthodox career and I wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it and I can't deny the fact that you like me -- right now, you like me!
~Sally Field (1985)
"We want to thank all of you for watching us congratulate ourselves tonight."
~Warren Beatty
"I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else."
~Jack Nicholson
"Losing would suck and winning would be really scary. And it's really, really scary."
~Ben Affleck (1998)
"It’s like winning the golden dude. A great honor. Before I didn’t have the chance of the Jamaican Bobsled team of winning… now I do." ~Robin Williams (1998)
"I'm a sucker for a free tuxedo." ~Billy Crystal, on hosting the Oscars for the sixth time (1998).
"I just want to thank everybody I've ever met in my entire life.'' ~ Best Supporting Actress Kim Basinger (1998).
"This is one night I wish I smoked and dranked."
~Grace Kelly, Best Actress 1954
"Marlon Brando very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award. And the reason for this being are the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry."
~Sacheen Littlefeather (refusing Brando's 1972 Best Actor Award)
"If I'd known this was all it would take, I'd have put that eyepatch on 40 years ago."
-- John Wayne upon acccepting his Oscar for "True Grit," 1970.
"Good evening, Hollywood phonies."~Chevy Chase (host 1987)
"The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business."
~Warren Beatty
"No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'"
~Whoopi Goldberg
"I don't feel very deserving of this in your presence."
-- best actress winner Gwyneth Paltrow, sobbing as she named her fellow nominees.
"I've been working and doing this work for, like, over half my life and I finally got one right I guess." -- James Coburn on winning best supporting actor for "Affliction" after making more than 80 films and never being nominated.
"Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic."
-- Steven Spielberg accepting best director for "Saving Private Ryan."
"I'm in shock. And I'm so in love with my brother right now, he just held me and said he loved me."
~ Angelina Jolie, accepting her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
"I love you! Tom Cruise, I love you, brother! I love you, man! Everybody, I love you. I love you all . . . I love you. Everybody who's involved with this, I love you. I love you. Everybody involved."
~ Cuba Gooding, Jr.
"God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this."
~Shirley MacLaine
"Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.' "
~Robin Williams
"Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub."
~
Dianne Wiest
"Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weatherbeaten, but we're still here an plan to be around for a whole lot longer." - John Wayne on presenting the Best Picture Oscar in 1979 (before his death later that same year).
"I am the king of the world!" ~James Cameron after winning Best Director for "Titanic"
"As a little kid, I lived in the projects and you're the people I watched. You're the people who made me want to be an actor. I'm so proud to be here."
~Whoopi Goldberg (1991)
"I love the world! I'm so happy! Thank you!" ~ Julia Robert when she won the Best actress Oscar for "Erin Brockovich"
"It has been a long journey to this moment." ~ Sidney Poitier,
1964.
"There's been a lot of criticism over the years over this award, and some of that criticism has been warranted. But whether it's warranted or not, I think it's one hell of an honor, and I thank you"
~ Jack Lemmon
1973
"I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen." -- Hillary Swank, 2005 "Million Dollar Baby."
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