Patricia Arquette accepts the award for best actress in a supporting role at the Oscars. Photo / AP
"To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen in this nation: We have fought for everybody else's equal rights. It's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights."
- Patricia Arquette, accepting her Oscar for best supporting actress in
Boyhood
.
"Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest."
- Host Neil Patrick Harris makes a sly stab at the Oscars lack of diversity.
"If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you."
- JK Simmons, accepting his Oscar for best supporting actor in Whiplash.
"Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck."
- Neil Patrick Harris makes fun of Travolta's infamous Idina Menzel clanger.
"We wrote this film for events that happened 50 years ago but we say that Selma is now. We live in the most incarcerated country in the world. There are more black men incarcerated today than were in slavery in 1850."
- John Legend accepting best original song for Glory in the film Selma.
"When I was 16 years old I tried to kill myself because I felt different and that I didn't belong. Now I'm here, and I want this moment to be for that kid who feels weird or different. Stay weird, stay different."
- Graham Moore accepting the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for The Imitation Game.
"I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me."
- Julianne Moore accepting the Oscar for best actress in Still Alice.
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