Chris Rock Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I really don't think about the Oscars.

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

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 adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.

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.

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.

The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

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.

Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

If I ever go onstage at the Oscars, you can guarantee I'll be wearing my motorcycle boots.

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.

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