Alex Ebert Quotes

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

When I was growing up in the house, we'd watch the Oscars.

I literally don't think about Oscar.

Awards season is big for me - I love following all the films and who might be nominated.

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.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

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

I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the Oscars was the biggest one.

I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.

I loved the Oscars, and I had V.H.S. tapes for the Oscars, and I used to watch them over and over. There was probably one year where I watched it, like, 20 times or something.

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

What usually happens on the Oscar telecast is that as soon as best picture is announced, everyone is up out of their seats and running off to their parties.

The Oscars is always the most special event of Awards Season and is the grand finale - there's just something about the atmosphere that makes it magical.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.

The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.

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

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 actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

The Oscars is a sport. There's the excitement of watching something live, as it happens.

Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.