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The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

I am always a little surprised when anyone sees anything I make, so being nominated for the Oscar is beyond amazing - what a tremendous honor.

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.