“I'm happy enough to cry, but I can't take the time to do so. A taxi is waiting outside with the engine running,” said Claudette Colbert, Best Actress winner, for Frank Capra's “It Happened One Night,” rushing to the train station.

“I thought some day I might win an award for lasting so long! But I never thought I would get this particular award,” a tearful John Wayne, Best Actor for “True Grit,” said in 1969.

“It took me as long to win this as it took to win the West,” said James Webb, Oscar winning writer for his Original Screenplay for the Western, “How the West Was Won.”

“It sure is a wonderful world when a tired crooner like me can walk away with this hunk of crockery,” said Bing Crosby, Best Actor for the comedy, “Going My Way.”

“It just happened that this year Mrs. March and I adopted a child and Mr. and Mrs. Beery adopted a child. And here we are, both getting awards for the best male performance of the year,” said Fredric March, Best Actor for “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” who split the 1931/2 Best Actor with Wallace Beery, “The Champ.”