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This Oscar quiz is all about quotes. We’re saluting the
memorable lines, quirky dialogue and witty quips from
Oscar-winning pictures, and the Oscar-winning actors
and actresses who transformed inky squiggles on a page
into movie magic I BY INGRID RANDOJA
1Whose reading of the line “I...don’t...
like...the...panties...hanging...on...the...
rod!” helped him earn a Best Actor Oscar?
2L.A. Confidential’s Kim Basinger earned
a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her
portrayal of an escort who looks like a
famous movie star. Can you fill in the
missing star’s name in this Basinger quote:
“You’re the first man in five years who didn’t
tell me I look like ___________ _________
inside of a minute.”
3Vivien Leigh won a Best Actress statue
for playing feisty Scarlett O’Hara in the
Best Picture winner Gone with the Wind.
Which of the following is one of her most
famous lines from the film?
A) “As God is my witness, you’ll never
kiss me Rhett Butler.”
B) “As God is my witness, I’ll never
be hungry again.”
C) “As God is my witness, Tara won’t
burn while I breathe.”
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara
in Gone with the Wind
4Which Best Supporting Actor winner
said after his victory, “It couldn’t have
happened to an older guy?”
A) Jack Palance for City Slickers
B) Melvyn Douglas for Being There
C) George Burns for The Sunshine Boys
5Which Best Picture winner ends with
the line “I love you”?
A) Terms of Endearment
B) Rocky
C) The English Patient
6Which character from Best Picture
winner The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King speaks the line
“The power of the Three Rings has ended.
The time has come for the dominion of Men.”
A) Galadriel B) Gandalf C) Aragorn
7The line “Sam, I thought I told
you never to play...” is from which
Best Picture-winning film?
8Tom Hanks won a Best Actor Oscar for
which movie that includes the line “I’m
not a smart man...but I know what love is.”
A) Philadelphia B) Forrest Gump
C) Cast Away
9Which Best Actress winner utters
this line of dialogue: “I’m going to be
a great film star! That is, if booze and
sex don’t get me first”?
A) Liza Minnelli in Cabaret
B) Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago
C) Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter
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Gladiator’s Russell Crowe
These simple, poignant four words —
10 “The list is life” — are from which
Best Picture-winning film?
Just moments before she won her
11 Best Actress Oscar, whose mother
turned to her and said, “You haven’t got a
snowball’s chance in hell”?
A) Cher
B) Julia Roberts
C) Emma Thompson
You’ve probably heard the phrase “He
12 ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.” It was
first spoken in which Oscar-winning film?
A) Boys Town
B) Stagecoach
C) The Best Years of Our Lives
“You can never, never ask me to stop
13 drinking. Do you understand?” is said
by which Best Actor winner in which movie?
A) Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas
B) Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend
C) Robert De Niro in Raging Bull
“I’m gonna make him an offer he
14 can’t refuse” is one of Oscar-winner
Marlon Brando’s best known lines from
The Godfather. But who is Don Corleone
making an offer to, and why?
A) Captain McCluskey, a corrupt cop who
Corleone wants to bribe
B) Jack Woltz, head of a Hollywood studio to
get him to cast Johnny Fontane in a movie
C) Don Barzini, a rival Don who operates a
drug ring that Corleone wants to take over
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Marlon Brando in The Godfather
“Such things you wrote. Special
15 things. Secret things.” Best
Supporting Actor winner Jim Broadbent
lovingly repeats that line in Iris. Name
the actress whom he’s addressing with
those words.
Gladiator’s Best Actor winner Russell
16 Crowe eggs on Rome’s Colosseum
crowd with the line “Are you not
entertained? Is this not why you are here?”
What is his character’s name?
A) Septimus
B) Marcus Aurelius
C) Maximus
Three women have won Best Actress
17 Oscars playing waitresses. Which one
uttered the line “We all have these terrible
stories to get over”?
A) Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce
B) Ellen Burnstyn in Alice Doesn’t Live Here
Anymore
C) Helen Hunt in As Good as it Gets
Silence of the Lambs ranks as a rare
18 horror/thriller to win the Best Picture
Oscar. Whose name is missing from the
following quote from the film?
“If I help you, _______________, it will be
turns with us too. Quid pro quo.”
Barbra Streisand, playing vaudeville
19 star Fanny Brice in Funny Girl,
purred the opening line “Hello gorgeous”
on her way to a Best Actress win. However,
Brice’s daughter didn’t want Streisand to
play her mother. Which actress did she
want for the role?
A) Carol Burnett
B) Martha Raye
C) Carol Channing
Which Best Picture winner uses the
20word f--k a record 237 times?
A) Crash
B) The Godfather
C) The Departed
ANSWERS:
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1. Richard Dreyfuss for The Goodbye Girl
2. Veronica Lake
3. b
4. c
5. b
6. a
7. Casablanca
8. b
9. a
10. Schindler’s List
11. c. Emma Thompson’s mother, actor
Phyllida Law, made the remark before
Thompson won for her performance in
Howard’s End
12. a
13. a
14. b
15. Judi Dench, who won the Best Actress
Oscar for her portrayal of Alzheimer’s
stricken author Iris Murdoch.
16. c
17. c
18. Clarice. The line is spoken by Hannibal
Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to FBI agent
Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster).
19. a
20. c
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