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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.
I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.
The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.
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.
I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.
This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.
First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.
There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.
I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.
I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.