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" If they didn't have an Oscar for people to shoot for, all they'd do is be making 'Dumb And Dumber' again and again. "
Robert Osborne
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Again
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" I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis. "
Robert Osborne
Sitting
Know
Party
" I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening. "
Robert Osborne
Kind
Movies
Think
" For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.' "
Robert Osborne
Award
Winner
Money
" You see a Clint Eastwood movie, and you might not know if it's from Universal or Warner Bros. or another studio. He has affiliations with so many studios now, but there was a time when you'd just look at a movie and think, 'Oh, that's a Warner Bros. film.' "
Robert Osborne
See
Know
Think
" When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition. "
Robert Osborne
Growing
Growing Up
Never
" There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the focus, but have that spirit of Christmas in them. I love that sequence in 'Auntie Mame,' where she's in the department store, sewing at Macy's, and she doesn't know how to do anything but fill out a form as 'cash on delivery!' "
Robert Osborne
Love
Movies
Christmas
" I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around. "
Robert Osborne
People
Love
Interesting
" My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day. "
Robert Osborne
Mother
World
War
" There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight. "
Robert Osborne
Time
Choose
Enjoy
" I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor. "
Robert Osborne
Award
Movies
Think
" Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me. "
Robert Osborne
Day
Live
Me
" I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better. "
Robert Osborne
Time
See
Love
" I'd worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that. "
Robert Osborne
Him
Rock
Well
" The weird thing with 'Kismet' is that Vincente Minnelli didn't know what to do with a Cinemascope camera for that film - so he never moved it! It's like in the old days when sound first came in and was so complicated that the camera just sat there. There are hardly any close-ups in 'Kismet,' so everything's at a bit of a distance. "
Robert Osborne
Sound
Weird
Distance
" I liked 'The Help,' and I love Viola Davis. But I didn't think that film was a great film; I thought that was a very uneven film. I thought the Southern women were so caricatured that it was kind of like 'Harper Valley PTA' or something like that. "
Robert Osborne
Thought
Great
Help
" There's an excellent movie we have on TCM called 'It Happened on Fifth Avenue,' which was originally going to be directed by Frank Capra... but just before he was going to start working on it, he came across this story called 'The Greatest Gift.' And that turned into 'It's a Wonderful Life.' "
Robert Osborne
Greatest Gift
Life
Start
" I'm 77. The only reason I'm ever shy about it is that people tend to think of you in terms of what they think that age is. I certainly don't feel any different than I did when I was 35, and my energy seems to be more than it was then. "
Robert Osborne
People
Age
Energy
" I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did. "
Robert Osborne
Two
Work
She
" I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and angry. "
Robert Osborne
Angry
Us
World
" One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me - so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I'm not a great Jack Black fan, but he's great in it. I think it's a gem. "
Robert Osborne
Think
Me
Black
" If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. "
Robert Osborne
Bed
Book
Little
" I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business. "
Robert Osborne
Small
Love
Business
" I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you. "
Robert Osborne
Something
Think
Time
" As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me. "
Robert Osborne
City
Energy
New York
" I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful. "
Robert Osborne
Imagination
You
Way
" I would be surprised if they gave Meryl Streep her third Oscar for a film as light as 'Julie and Julia,' although, of course, Katharine Hepburn's third Oscar came with a very light performance from her in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' "
Robert Osborne
Dinner
Performance
Light
" I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have. "
Robert Osborne
Good
Movies
Many
" When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD. "
Robert Osborne
Rest
City
You
" The British 'A Night to Remember' is so beautifully done and so well-constructed. "
Robert Osborne
British
Night
Done
" Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast. "
Robert Osborne
You
Fast
Funny