Jimmy Kimmel Quotes

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

I had been watching the Emmys since I was probably 5 years old. Those shows, when you're a kid, it all seems like such a big, big deal, and only special certain people would win one of these big things like a Tony or an Emmy or an Oscar.

Often times I don't watch the Oscars because I say this isn't for me.

The Emmys are flat-out fun.

I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.

Born in the silent era, with the first ceremony hosted by Douglas Fairbanks at the Roosevelt Hotel, the Oscars are a tradition in a business that doesn't have much of it, and the biggest spectacle in a business that's often nothing but.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.

Hollywood is a world all its own.

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

I'm most excited to meet Jon Hamm at the Emmys.

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?'

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.'

The Emmys are in good hands with Andy Samberg. Disgusting, dirty hands.

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.

I know the Academy Awards are all about the art, and love, of movie making. But I have to say, my favorite part is the dresses!

I've watched the Emmys for almost my whole life, so it was crazy to finally be there in the audience clapping and actually going on stage. Hopefully one day I'll get to be actually nominated.