I love watching the Oscars and seeing everybody saying all that 'it's an honour just to be nominated' rubbish. Then you see their faces when the split screen comes up as the winner is announced - the losers are all smiling through gritted teeth and looking as if they just swallowed half a pound of soor plooms.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for eve... BRUCE VILANCH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that y... KATARINA WITT Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experienc... RICHARD GREENBERG I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha... OLIVIA COLMAN Playing clubs is the ultimate - you see the faces; you hear the 'clicking' glasses - I love ... 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LUKE BRYAN There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way ... LIONEL MESSI When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you ... JULIA ROBERTS As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you... IOAN GRUFFUDD I'm the CEO of A$AP Worldwide. But as you can see, when I'm with them, everybody's equal... ASAP ROCKY 'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It'... JOHN LASSETER I love the Oscars. All sorts of tacky people win. And watching everyone run up and down those aisles... GERALDINE PAGE Outside football, I just love life, you know. We're lucky to play football, to have all this bod... PAUL POGBA I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I... KAWHI LEONARD When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there'... 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You can see it in the Trum... MERYL STREEP I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's ... KIM BARNOUIN The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just tw... SAID NURSI And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your a... BILLY GARDELL Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells y... HAILEY BALDWIN When two people break up, it's all about them; they can't see anyone else. And the people ge... VINNIE JONES You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrai... HOPE MIRRLEES As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the powe... EBON MOSS-BACHRACH Action shouldn't just be seeing all those crashes. You can blow up a cathedral; next time you bl... MICHELLE YEOH I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, th... EUGENE H. PETERSON In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being succ... JOHN CORBETT For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching ... KEVIN SPACEY I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's n... CHRIS KYLE Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. ... LOU HOLTZ I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They'r... DAVID HEYMAN Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things are... DONALD JUDD As life forms, viruses are just inherently interesting. It's the microworld - this universe of l... RICHARD PRESTON I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I lo... SCOTT BAKULA All these people are so firm on their positions. That's where the humor in the movie comes from, ...... AARON ECKHART When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going th... SCOTTY MCCREERY If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. ZIG ZIGLAR You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,'... A.J. STYLES I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It'... ALEX LIFESON There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play ... ANDY BIERSACK I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst sayi... ALAN HANSEN Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars a... STEVE CARELL Coming from Morocco was just different, man. It's a third-world country, and you are trying to m... FRENCH MONTANA Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my m... VIDYA BALAN As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've ... TROY POLAMALU I take the subway all the time here in New York. I love people watching and trying to figure out eve... SHERRI SHEPHERD There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And th... RAINN WILSON That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is y... DAVID O. RUSSELL Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are slee... JAMAICA KINCAID Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke... JOHN RIDLEY We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinn... KATHERINE KELLY When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works ... CANDICE ACCOLA I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in th... KAT EDMONSON I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each... ABBIE CORNISH You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in thei... CLINT EASTWOOD If you were ever a ballerina, you know the pain: just to be able to look like it's all so light,... MICHELLE YEOH I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think... MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM If you're a guy who's always been the fun-to-be-around teddy bear, then all of a sudden peop... ADAM RICHMAN When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember tal... BEN SCHNETZER I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who ... TIM BURTON You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists... ERIC IDLE Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical id... HELMUT JAHN Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or ... KARA DIOGUARDI The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what k... MADS MIKKELSEN When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it ... MARY KARR I'll post a video, and it might get 10,000 comments, and I'll scroll through and they'll... ZOE SUGG Just be yourself. As an actor, you pretend all day - that's what the job calls for. So, when it ... JUSTIN CHON I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that.... JEFF NICHOLS I catch an old 'Morse' on ITV3. I've never thought I looked particularly like my son. He... KEVIN WHATELY I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'... ALVAH BESSIE I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's lik... OSCAR ISAAC I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I... EMMA BUNTON I just want girls to realize, everybody's born a way for a reason, and you are who you are. You ... NIKKI BLONSKY It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they a... 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another, that he may retire the so... ARISTIDES ("THE JUST") We make war that we may live in peace. ARISTIDES ("THE JUST") A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on yo... ALAN ARKIN
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ANNE FAGAN NIVEN Our goal is to identify biomarkers, to be able to diagnose people early in the disease stage, hopefu... ANNE FAGAN NIVEN Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull
Once of ethereal spirit full!
This narrow cell was Life's ret... ANNA JANE VARDILL (MRS. JAMES NIVEN) The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me. “Is it true you almost drowned Roamer... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th... JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete... JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ... JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis... JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go... JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ... JOHN CLAYTON