"The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything."

"No one in Europe had never heard of it. I didn`t know what it was, it didn`t mean anything to me." [in reference to winning an Academy Award in the 1937] (2003)

"It was not the thing that I strived for because, you see, today`s Academy Award is - Oh God! the thing everyone longs for." (2003)

"You are now 60 and I am 20. When I am 40, the age of a successful actress, you will be dead and I will live." [Luise Rainer to MGM Chief, Louis B. Mayer when she walked out on her MGM contract in 1930s]

"For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me."