SOME OF THOSE NOMINATED FOR THE 2015 ACADEMY AWARDS HAVE OFFERED THEIR THOUGHTS
- "I don't care how much people tell you, 'It's gonna happen.' When it happens, you're thrilled." - Michael Keaton on his best-actor nod for Birdman.
- "I am so (expletive) excited. Are you allowed to say (expletive) when you're making a statement for the Oscars?" - Emma Stone, supporting-actress nominee for Birdman.
- "I was woken up for the first time in probably six weeks by someone new who didn't actually want food." - New mom Rosamund Pike on getting an early morning phone call with news of her best actress nod for Gone Girl.
- "To ring my parents who are both actors and tell them that their only son has been nominated for an Oscar is one of the proudest moments of my life." - Benedict Cumberbatch on his best actor nod for The Imitation Game.
- "I was in a deep, dark sleep. I was in a dazed state. I was half undressed and stumbled to the door. I found my manger there brandishing a phone with a lot of screams coming out of it." - Eddie Redmayne on how he learned he was nominated for best actor for The Theory of Everything.
- "One could say, only two times?" - Composer Alexandre Desplat, a double nominee for his original scores for The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Imitation Game.
- "A guy doesn't think about things like this when he starts doing summer theater in Bigfork, Montana in the '70s." - J.K. Simmons, nominated for his supporting role in Whiplash.
- "Even though we're up for best documentary, I feel it's the best acting I've ever done." - Actor Jeff Garlin, a producer of nominated documentary feature Finding Vivian Maier.
- "That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House." - Laura Poitras on whether Edward Snowden, the subject of her nominated documentary, Citizenfour, will attend the Oscar ceremony.
- "I spent a few years in Los Angeles and I used to stand outside the Baskin-Robbins and watch the limos going by, and it's a bit like Cinderella finally being invited to the ball." - Anthony McCarten, nominated for his screenplay and as a producer of The Theory of Everything.
- "No comment. I've been called worse." - Cinematographer Dick Pope, whose name was pronounced as Dick Poop when he was nominated for his work in Mr. Turner.
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