Jon Stewart Quotes

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

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

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

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

Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors.

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.

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 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.

The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful. It was the biggest press line I'd ever seen.

It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.

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

Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

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?'

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

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

Since childhood, I have been watching the Filmfare Awards, and it has always been very special to anyone who works in the film industry.

I love the Empire Awards. It is really different and laid back.

Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

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.

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

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

Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.

There are too many awards shows.