Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.
But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.
My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for The Social Network.
There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.
I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.
I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.
My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.
I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.
Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.
Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.
I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
In some ways, the most rewarding thing I've done were the two times that I did the Oscars, particularly the first time because it was really like the ultimate "Let's put on a show," with every great movie star in the world available.
I only wanna go up the steps toward a different level of stardom. The BET Awards was one of those steps, the VMAs was another huge step. And the next step, eventually, hopefully, would be the Oscars.
I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.
They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.