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"When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing."
"I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort."
"The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get."
"I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything."
"Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts."
"You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin."
"[Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor."
"Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!"
"[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical."
"I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show."
"The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations."
"All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess."
"I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is."
"I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars."
"I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining."
"Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance."
"That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars."
"I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it's great."
"You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time."