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QUVENZHANE WALLIS I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.
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QUVENZHANE WALLIS I loved experiencing city life in New York.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS I would read all day if I could.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set.
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QUVENZHANE WALLIS Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like ...
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QUVENZHANE WALLIS I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It help...
QUVENZHANE WALLIS I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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QUVENZHANE WALLIS I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
QUVENZHANE WALLIS As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to h...
QUVENZHANE WALLIS If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a...
QUVENZHANE WALLIS The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed b...
HELEN HUNT Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER I had no idea what modeling entailed and what an agency was. It was crazy. As I continued to do it, ...
CAMERON DALLAS Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really...
OSCAR WILDE A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. ...
OSCAR WILDE My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the...
ANNE DUDLEY Obviously, that was an incredible Big East battle. I think that's what this league is going to be ab...
JAY WRIGHT P. I. on a Hot Tin Roof: A Talba Wallis Novel,
JULIE SMITH At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an...
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this [on winning an Oscar 2005]
HILARY SWANK I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this [on winning an Oscar 2005]
HILARY SWANK I can't see what Jack Warner can do with an Oscar - it can't say yes.
AL JOLSON Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Just as vul...
OSCAR WILDE The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is...
OSCAR WILDE There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.
ENNIO MORRICONE Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when...
ANNE TAINTOR I have an Oscar on my mantel.
IRWIN WINKLER I would love to make a film, ... I want an Oscar!
CELINE DION Actually, watching film, to me, is how I learn. I was eager to watch the film.
DANIELLE SANTOS The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.
BRENDA BLETHYN When she actually installed her design, it was not what we had as an organization or a committee app...
KAREN OWEN So many people who have been nominated for an Oscar have had bad luck afterwards.
GIG YOUNG I was actually in my mid-30s when I got the Oscar. And yeah, it does kind of spoil you in terms of t...
ANJELICA HUSTON I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
E.M. FORSTER I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had ...
CHERYL STRAYED Then the part comes to me and it fits like a glove because it's actually written about me, ... All I...
DAVID CARRADINE There are three effects to an Oscar,
EMMANUEL LEVY For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. ...
RICK RIORDAN I wanted to have students exposed to, very practically, designing for someone who had an actual need...
CAROL BEARD I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
RICHIE ASHBURN My dad won an Oscar in 1951 with an un-Anglicized name, the first Hispanic to ever win an Oscar, and...
MIGUEL FERRER My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
ANNE M. MULCAHY You learn what they had to endure to build this enterprise, but you also learn what an incredible en...
BOB KENDRICK My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
BEAU BRIDGES I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught,...
YIGAL AZROUEL Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!
CARICE VAN HOUTEN This was one of the few times where we actually had an issue with them and they were actually presen...
CHRISTINE CHEN What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
STEVE MARTIN I could not send an e-mail because I had three assistants, so I never had to learn,
TOM FORD Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.
MICHAEL W. SMITH That's how you accept an Oscar.
JON STEWART I knew what he was thinking. Thanks to Mickey, I had been elevated from child-who-can’t-learn-to-s...
FIROOZEH DUMAS I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
PANCHO VILLA I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my e...
MITCH HEWER (for which he won numerous critics' prizes and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe.
DANNY AIELLO I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour jus...
DANIEL BARBER The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't ha...
ERNEST BORGNINE Well their performance was really brilliant. They should get an Oscar for best performance in a come...
LAURA POLLAN The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now t...
JACKI WEAVER Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ...
BECKY ALBERTALLI I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actua...
HALSEY I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my 9-5...
DASCHA POLANCO I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actua...
MEREDITH MONK There was no other way to say it. After being heartbroken for so long, I had made myself completely ...
JENNIFER SALAIZ I doubt (the thieves) knew what they were stealing, ... They were probably quite surprised and maybe...
BRUCE DAVIS I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood i...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE He actually had an entertainer who wanted to buy one of his cars, and that was going to bring in a l...
GEORGE LEWIS It was an important lesson for me to learn, ... to be thorough, to finish what you start.
VIN DIESEL My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.
CONRAD HALL Always keep an open mind and to listen to what those around you have to say about you. You might act...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Always keep an open mind and to listen to what those around you have to say about you. You might act...
AULIQ ICE I was big time into Barbie. I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore th...
JENNIFER SKY Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to
learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH I had to ask Oscar a lot of questions to fill in the gaps. He called it free therapy. We had fights,...
LUIS MANDOKI Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1...
BRAD THOR I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.
CLIFFORD GEERTZ Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
KATHY BATES I suppose I grew up wishing I was an American Jew for the comedy and the one-liners. ... actress who...
RICKY GERVAIS I had to learn that I knew nothing. I also had to learn that it was okay to think for myself and tha...
ARIN MURPHY-HISCOCK [On Oscar Wilde:]
"If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram, DOROTHY PARKER So who's perfect? Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpl...
JOHN O'HARA I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.
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