Peter Morgan Quotes

The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.

Awards season is always a huge amount of fun whether you're a part of it or not. It's always really exciting seeing what films are coming and a lot of new talent as well.

I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

There are too many awards shows.

The whole format of an awards function seems to be tailor made for a television audience. I think it is just an ego boosting affair.

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

For any of you who don't know, the Golden Globes are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker, and more easily bought.

The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and wait for it.

I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting 'Shakedown,' a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.

I don't go to premieres, unless I'm contractually bound to.

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

I go for a couple of parties; you won't find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried attending for the first three to four years, and I've performed at award shows. I sat in them, and I've also exited pretty fast from them. It's just not my place. I'd rather get their adulation in a cinema hall.

I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

I think celebrities suck.

Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

I love the Oscars. All sorts of tacky people win. And watching everyone run up and down those aisles is just adorable.

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it.

I don't have it in for critics, and I never have.