Entertainment Awards Quotes

Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

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

The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and that focus translates into people buying tickets to see movies or download films, legitimately download them. And it keeps us all at work. So I'm a big fan of award shows.

Indian film awards lack credibility.

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.

I remember liking the MTV awards when I was a kid.

They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.

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

Do you really miss anything that was worth watching at the MTV Awards?

I know a lot of procedurals have huge viewership, yet they're never nominated for awards.

I want to be known as a triple threat. I have aspirations to win an Oscar and a Grammy, and I also want to win a Tony. I want to be one of those guys like Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Jr. that crossed all those barriers of entertainment.

They'll give you an Oscar if they think you're about to drop dead. The problem with The Oscars is, the average age of The Academy is 84. They wheel those people in from Palm Springs and hook up their IVs and they vote. The people that go to movies are under the age of 28, for the most part, so there's this total disconnect between what the Academy thinks is a great movie and what the audience actually wants to see.

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.