THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Director Gabriel Axel, on Danish producers’ reluctance to fund the $2.5- to 3-million budget for “Babette’s Feast”: “There are only 5 million people in Denmark, and, even if every one of them went to the movie, it would not be enough to show a profit.”

“Broadcast News” best supporting actor nominee Albert Brooks, on the possibility of winning his first Oscar: “It’d be important to me, and I’d definitely turn up to collect it. I’m not one of those actors who’d send along the cleaning lady instead.”

Cher, on “Moonstruck”: “(It’s) the first movie of mine that I ever watched without wanting to throw up.”

Sally Kirkland, on her nomination for “Anna”: “I cannot tell a lie; my fantasy ever since I was 5 years old has been to hold that (statue) and say, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.’ ”