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Related TREY PARKER ANGELA LANSBURY A wise guy Italian. And I was a cocky little guy - just nominated for best actor on Broadway. EDDIE MEKKA CHARLIE ROWE SALLY KELLERMAN ANDIE MACDOWELL BILL MURRAY I got my award for special contributions, and I'm hanging around backstage. I found out, months late... HAROLD RUSSELL JOHN SINGLETON I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. ... DON AMECHE KATE WINSLET CHANNING TATUM LEONARDO DICAPRIO ALFONSO CUARON I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting acto... ED BEGLEY, JR. ADRIEN BRODY I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman's n... TERI GARR The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I e... VANESSA FERLITO At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me. It w... RICHARD ANDERSON RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano less... CASSIE VENTURA I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing. DAVID NAIL MICHAEL CAINE I was stunned. I know I try to do a lot for the other families, and I appreciate everyone who nomina... CHERISE FRASER I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously. IAN GOMEZ MINDY KALING People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated ... TARON EGERTON LOUIS C. K. TORI KELLY When I was a kid, I remember seeing Michael Jackson. I thought he was an alien. You don't grow u... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE BRAD THOR If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ... RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE GEORGE R.R. MARTIN HUBERT SELBY JR. Leaving Nickelodeon was definitely an adjustment. Because then, it was back to the real world of, &#... KENAN THOMPSON We're raffling off a couple of unique prizes this year in conjunction with the Academy Awards. The f... KIRSTEN TURNER I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surround... LAURA BENANTI I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award fo... JOHN KESSEL HOLLY HUNTER As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things. T. V. CARPIO JOHN HAWKES As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was l... CLIFF BURTON ERYKAH BADU DOMINIQUE MOCEANU TOM HIDDLESTON ROBIN WILLIAMS I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award. LARAINE DAY ROBIN WILLIAMS SOULJA BOY I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and th... CORBIN BERNSEN My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes,' was nominated for a number of book awards, one ... DIANA GALBADON DIANA GABALDON UNKNOWN DEYTH BANGER J.D. SALINGER J.D. SALINGER JOEL EDGERTON And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done. HERB BROOKS I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a re... KATHY BATES I'll never try to win an award. I'm out there just playing for my team. KAWHI LEONARD It's a good experience. I was surprise last time at just how engaged and well-educated on the issue ... MICHAEL RAMSEY DAVID TENNANT MARA WILSON LEONARDO DICAPRIO And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the... CODY HORN PAUL MOONEY LORETTA LYNN PARIS HILTON I was scared to film 'GLOW' for many reasons. As an actor, as a wrestler. It was just a very... BETTY GILPIN WENTWORTH MILLER I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy. GUY CLARK DAN CASTELLANETA I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. Th... JENNIFER CONNELLY I was a dancer for about 14 years. I was a martial artist for the same amount of time. I quit that w... FALK HENTSCHEL GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way f... TAYLOR HICKS When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just ima... HALEY JOEL OSMENT When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn... ADAM RAPP GABOUREY SIDIBE I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people. TAMSIN GREIG I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid. DAVE VAN RONK When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior ... TAKASHI MURAKAMI ALAN ARKIN MARLENE DIETRICH This is one of the better honors I've ever been honored with. This award is more of a lifetime achie... ALTON ADAMS TORI KELLY At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an... MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at mysel... ANNA FARIS I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised ... YUL VAZQUEZ CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I was a bit nervous collecting my award - there was a little bit of perspiration. It was just an ama... ANDREW FLINTOFF I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid. ZACHARY LEVI DAVID NICHOLLS In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award ... LESLEY MANVILLE TOM HOLLAND In high school and college, I'd set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects... JOHN KNOLL PAT MORITA Shoot, man, I loved being a damn heel. Something about that, just going out there and being the most... STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN
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I was like, 'We're going to get nominated for an Academy Award for this.' I really was, ... I even t... 
I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridic... 
I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie fil... 
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Acade... 
I'm not aiming for an Academy Award. 
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominat... 
I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing. 
Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy ... 
But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor. 
I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, an... 
'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award ... 
It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me ... 
At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me. It w... 
I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American. 
I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at... 
I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward. 
All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I&#... 
Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1... 
is a broken man an outlaw?"
The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy... 
After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was ... 
I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was a... 
I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a sa... 
I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-scho... 
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. 
I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor. 
I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second f... 
My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye... 
My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', was nominated for a number of book awards, one ... 
It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'... 
We should be ready for a change. 
Did you see more glass? 
She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ... 
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stic... 
I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at scho... 
Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I ... 
As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I ... 
White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for ... 
I was shocked when they nominated me for five different things, 
I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come. 
Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it ... 
The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditio... 
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... 
Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that co... 
I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stu... 
A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the... 
When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never v... 
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at univer... 
I was joking with my agent that I'm going to get typecast for a water-disaster actor. 
I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything. 
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice. 
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exer... 
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice. 
I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me ... 
I lost my confidence. 
I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me. 
I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away. 
I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United State... 
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oliga... 
Whatever it takes to win. 
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Pol... 
You can never have enough talent. 
I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the pa... 
I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and th... 
It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies. 
I have a very positive outlook. 
I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with. 
I do or die, but I never cancel out.