Matthew McConaughey
"I got a prize for excellence for something that's not my job, it's not my hobby, it's not my fad — it's my career." —Matthew McConaughey (Best Actor, Dallas Buyers Club)
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Lupita Nyong’o
"I can't believe this is in my hands. I can't believe this is real life. I'm really overwhelmed." —Lupita Nyong'o (Best Supporting Actress, 12 Years a Slave)
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Cate Blanchett
"It's an intense, unbearable pressure, which I'm so glad is over." —Cate Blanchett (Best Actress, Blue Jasmine)
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Jared Leto
"You can fondle it if you want to. Pass it around. But if you have swine flu, please don't touch. I bet this is the first time someone has given away their Oscar for an orgy in the press room." —Jared Leto (Best Supporting Actor, Dallas Buyers Club)
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Steve McQueen
"Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live. This is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup.… I dedicate this award to all people who have endured slavery, and the 21 million people who still suffer slavery today." —Steve McQueen (Best Picture, 12 Years a Slave)
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John Ridley
"I want to be very clear about something: Before I started this project, I didn't know Solomon [Northup]'s name. I didn't know his story, I didn't know his life. I didn't know anything about him." —John Ridley (Best Adapted Screenplay, 12 Years a Slave)
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Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
"What we love about Frozen is that we’re finding that people are relating to the characters — [people] from any part of the world, and any family — and that’s been huge for us." —Jennifer Lee (Best Animated Feature, Frozen)
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Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
"It’s my first movie as director and producer. The first movie of Alexandre as co-director. I feel it’s an American dream." – Laurent Witz [on stage] (Best Animated Short, Mr. Hublot)
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Alfonso Cuaron
"What is fantastic of this evening is that this has been a very long process. This just marks a closure, and I’m so grateful to Gravity." —Alfonso Cuaron (Best Director, Gravity)
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Janet Friesen, Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers and Darlene Love
"I think we're going to have to change the name of the movie to Stardom because it's amazing. To make a film about people who have so much talent but have been overlooked or had bad luck and then have that film create new opportunities for them and new luck is the best reward we ever could have gotten. And then there's this, too." —Morgan Neville (Best Documentary, 20 Feet From Stardom)
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Mark Sanger and Alfonso Cuaron
"As opposed to a conventional film, where special effects are part of postproduction, here is a film in which editing, special effects and the cinematography started two years before we started shooting." —Alfonso Cuaron (Best Film Editing, Gravity)
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Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
"I'm going to sleep with it." —Adruitha Lee [on where the duo plan to keep their Oscar] (Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Dallas Buyers Club)
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Kim Magnusson and Anders Walter
"I just think it's a very beautiful thing to do to come up with imaginary worlds to ease pain; it's a fantastic way to escape." —Anders Walter (Best Live-Action Short Film, Helium)
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Beverley Dunn and Catherine Martin
"I am speechless. I don't know how I feel about it other than very happy. And it's a very strange and surreal feeling because these awards aren't really for just Bev or I or just for me. What they represent is the hard work of — in our departments it was nearly 1,200 people that worked with us — great technicians and artisans." —Catherine Martin (Best Production Design, The Great Gatsby)
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Glenn Freemantle
The editor likened Gravity to a "ballet" and spoke of creating a balance between the visual and sound cues. "It was this huge collaboration." —Glenn Freemantle (Best Sound Editing, Gravity)
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Emmanuel Lubezki
"We would have meetings with Alfonso [Cuaron] and the special-effects people and define how each scene of the movie was going to look." —Emmanuel Lubezki (Achievement in Cinematography, Gravity)
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Catherine Martin
"We have a room in our house called the 'red room' — because it's red — and that's where we put all the memorabilia. There was a very funny Australian film called The Castle. I always say, just like in The Castle, that my prizes go right to the ballroom — but in my case, it's the red room." —Catherine Martin (Best Costume Design, The Great Gatsby)
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Paolo Sorrentino
"I don't know if the Italian industry is doing this, but I am sure that the Italian industry should do more for — it's a long time that we are going to do just movies for a local market. And I hope that this award is stimulation for the Italian cinema to do a story that can go everywhere" —Paolo Sorrentino (Best Foreign Language Film, The Great Beauty)
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Steven Price
"Incredible. I can't believe it, really." —Steven Price (Best Original Score, Gravity)
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Spike Jonze
After his win for best original screenplay, Spike Jonze fielded questions from reporters about whether he thought his film portrayed an accurate view of what the future could look like. “I think anything is going to happen and everything is going to happen. I think we’re 13 billion years into this universe and there’s many more billion years after this, so who knows." —Spike Jonze (Best Original Screenplay, Her)
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Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
"Every single day on my Facebook or my Twitter I get some sort of testimonial about that song … and that is so meaningful to us. That our song can go and give hugs to people like that." —Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Best Original Song, Frozen)
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Nicholas Reed and Malcolm Clarke
"We were at an Academy screening in New York and someone asked me how [musician Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor and the subject of The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life] was doing. I foolishly said she was doing great. What I didn't know was that she had just gone into the hospital feeling a little sick. She didn't suffer, and she died quietly on Sunday morning. But it's been a strange, surreal week for Nicholas and me," —Malcolm Clarke (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed, Best Documentary Short, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life)
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Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
"Most of the time if we do our job right, nobody noticed, and then it's nice that finally that we got a chance to show off a little bit. —Niv Adiri (Best Sound Mixing, Gravity)