Russell Simmons Quotes

Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service!

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

I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.'

I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show . . . What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one. And they don't recognize comedy, and you don't see a lot of black people nominated, so why should I watch it?

I've just never seen a live event [like Oscar] where the emotional swings - it was just stunning.And it was interesting because, on one hand, "Moonlight" is one of these, like, generational pictures that you wanted to see win. But at the same time, if "La La Land" had won, I completely understood.

The Oscars is the one night of the year when you can see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party

The Oscars are this Sunday. Host Neil Patrick Harris said he hopes the broadcast will include a 'Kanye moment.' Unfortunately a Kanye moment may not be possible because that would require a black person to be at the Oscars.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.

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.

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

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

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

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