Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.
I want to let you know that there is a definitive blueprint that you can follow to achieve success, prosperity, longevity and peace of mind. I've followed it my whole career. It's very simple, just do these three things: pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith's wife's name out of your f*cking mouth!
Eddie Murphy - January 2023
White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played any of them slave roles, and get my ass whipped. That's how you get the nomination as a black dude.
Love will make you do crazy things.
Will Smith - März 2022, Oscar accepting speech
Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.
I think that we've become very disconnected from the natural world, and many of us, what we're guilty of is an egocentric worldview.
Joaquin Phoenix - Acceptance Speech, Oscars 2020
There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.
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People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.
Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.
Nobody does anything for free in Hollywood. They have to be paid for everything.
I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
Everyone wants to get to Hollywood. I don't trust people who say otherwise.
The majority of the most successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
Do you have anything in this shop as beautiful as she is?
Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman
This is Hollywood. Always time to dream, so keep on dreamin'.
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.
Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
Hollywood is a very inspiring place.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
He who says he can and he who says he can't, are both usually right.
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
The first step is you have to say that you can.
Life is lived on the edge.
I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.
Anything you have to "acquire a taste for" was not meant to be eaten.
The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.
The resistance to science is idiotic.
If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia, you are not scared, you are an a-shole!
Challenge yourself; it's the only path which leads to growth.
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
I don't know how to drive a car.
Human beings, at our best, are so inventive and creative and ingenious, and I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, develop and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment.
Joaquin Phoenix - Acceptance Speech, Oscars 2020
When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.
If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.
If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.
Music needs room to breathe.