{"id":14202,"date":"2006-01-31T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/2006\/01\/31\/other-memorable-oscar-quotes-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:22:08","slug":"other-memorable-oscar-quotes-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2006\/01\/other-memorable-oscar-quotes-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Other memorable Oscar quotes of the day…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u201cYou can\u2019t pasteurize the Academy Award, you can\u2019t negotiate it. It is the top.\u201d \u2013 Felicity Huffman, Transamerica<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hate to break it to you, Ms. Huffman, but, well, you\u2019re completely wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was completely surprised.\u201d \u2013 Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ummm\u2026 if any nomination this year was a lock, it was yours, Reese. Give yourself some credit.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy levels of gratitude will be overflowing all day, so I\u2019ll be making a mess as they spill all over wherever I go.\u201d \u2013 Bennett Miller, Capote<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I liked your film, Mr. Miller, but ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s featured films paint a portrait of America that is guaranteed to have the Bush crowd fulminating. This is a land where the frontier is a hotbed of gay love, and where the cities are seething cauldrons of race hate . It is a country where the workplace is a site for sexual harassment, the heroes are pimps and the pioneer spirit is embodied by a pre-operative transsexual.\u201d \u2013 Xan Brooks, Guardian UK<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah. Right. \u201cThe Bush crowd\u201d is against love. They\u2019re all racists. They\u2019re all for sexual harrassment. And who in their right mind could possibly not view pimps and transsexuals as our country\u2019s guiding lights?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t make the film for any kind of political movement. We never expected to change people\u2019s minds. But if it does affect people\u2019s hearts, if perceptions can get altered, that\u2019s a good thing.\u201d \u2013 Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So\u2026 what perception do you want your movie to give us, Heath? That Ennis and Jack would have lived happily ever after if they hadn\u2019t been persecuted? The movie doesn\u2019t convince me of that. That Ennis and Jack were in love? Looked more like lust and a preoccupation with nostalgia to me. That infidelity is a brave and wonderful thing? Sorry\u2026 the only thing that broke my heart in Brokeback Mountain <\/em>was thinking about poor Alma and how badly their kids need a good role model for a dad.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to celebrate by flying to Cabo and having a shot of tequila.\u201d \u2013 George Clooney, on his three nominations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ahh\u2026 the words of the man with the moral high ground. George, that statement is so, so, so much better than your Golden Globes acceptance speech.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 I\u2019m not certain that there\u2019s ever been a film that has a gay romance that\u2019s been embraced this way. But on the other hand the film is about a lot more than that. I\u2019ve said this before, but it\u2019s sort of like saying \u2018Lonesome Dove\u2019 is just a story about a cattle drive.\u201d \u2013 Diana Ossana, nominated with Larry McMurtry Brokeback Mountain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s ALSO about cheating on your wife, betraying your kids, plunging into hasty unprotected sex with someone you\u2019ve just met, and convincing yourself that you\u2019ll be happy if you can just get back to that summer when you cut yourself off from the rest of the world and pretended your actions didn\u2019t have consequences.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou can\u2019t pasteurize the Academy Award, you can\u2019t negotiate it. It is the top.\u201d \u2013 Felicity Huffman, Transamerica Hate to break it to you, Ms. Huffman, but, well, you\u2019re completely wrong. \u201cI was completely surprised.\u201d \u2013 Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line Ummm\u2026 if any nomination this year was a lock, it was yours, Reese. Give […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1779,247],"class_list":["post-14202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-brokeback-mountain","tag-oscars"],"yoast_head":"\nOther memorable Oscar quotes of the day...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""You can't pasteurize the Academy Award, you can't negotiate it. 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