Billy Eichner Quotes

I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.

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

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

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

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

I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'

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

Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.

Maybe I'll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot.

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.

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

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid.

To be at the Oscars for 'American Sniper' and then also supporting Red Carpet Green Dress is just twice as cool for me.

You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.

I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

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

The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.

I think the most important thing about the Emmys stuff is just to enjoy it. It can get really stressful in weird ways, and I have definitely experienced that. This year, I really just want to have it be a fun celebration!

Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who has no idea what the Oscars are.

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

Well, certainly at the Golden Globes, during every commercial break everyone gets up and schmoozes with each other.