"This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened."
- Halle Berry becomes the first black woman to win a Best Actress Oscar, Monster's Ball, 2000
"I just want to thank everybody I've ever met in my entire life."
- Kim Basinger, Best Supporting Actress, L.A Confidential, 1997
"I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen."
- Hillary Swank, Best Actress, Million Dollar Baby, 2004
"I just said to Matt [Damon], 'Losing would suck and winning would be really scary.' And it's really, really scary."
- Ben Affleck, Best Original Screenplay together with Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting, 1997
"Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'"
- Robin Williams, Best Supporting Actor, Good Will Hunting, 1998
"God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this."
- Shirley MacLaine, Best Actress, Terms of Endearment, 1984
"I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow."
- Benicio del Toro, Best Supporting Actor, Traffic, 2000
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