- Jack Nicholson: [receiving the Best Actor award for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"] I guess this proves that there are just as many nuts in the academy as anywhere else.
- George Burns: [on winning the Oscar] After this I think I'll start taking some of those gentile roles, become the next Robert Redford.
- Milos Forman: I've been told by many people that the Academy is patriotic, chauvinistic and does not like to give awards to foreigners. It's nice to know it isn't so.