James Cromwell Quotes

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

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.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

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

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.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

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

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.

I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. 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.

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.

When we first went to L.A., Howard Koch, who was the head of Paramount Pictures and later President of the Oscars, threw a welcome lunch for us at his house. There were all these stars there - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Lucille Ball, Natalie Wood, Henry Mancini.

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.

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

There's nothing more American than movies.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

I'd like to win an Oscar.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

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

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

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

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.

Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.