The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. — George C. Scott
At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear. — Mary Hart
Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz. — Maureen O'Hara
If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates. — Imelda Staunton
Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar I'm always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac on TV, too. — Robert Mitchum
Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy. — Billy Bob Thornton
What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything. — Sally Field
Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing. — Portia de Rossi
It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it. — Reese Witherspoon
Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits. — Pink
The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). — David Mamet
You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts. — Scarlett Johansson
You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk. — Ian Mckellen
I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter. — Denzel Washington
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'. — John Ritter
Short Emmy Quotes
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity. — Viola Davis
I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter. — Rick Ross
The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances. — Jeffrey Tambor
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest. — William Devane
It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling. — Allison Janney
Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it. — Larry David
I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony. — Cyndi Lauper
You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there. — Viola Davis
Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt. — Charles Keating
What am I going to wear to the Emmys? Something with a tie. — Timothy Olyphant
Emmy Image Quotes
Grammy Quotes
While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile. — J. Cole
Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys. — Sam Smith
I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too. — Leah LaBelle
I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before. — Janis Ian
People saying that you been robbed is almost better than winning a Grammy. — Schoolboy Q
Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones. — Joanne Lipman
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there. — Viola Davis
I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door. — Neil Patrick Harris
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World. — Mary Chapin Carpenter
I feel like I'm already a winner. I've made so many dreams come true. I'm here. Whether you walk away with a statue [ Emmy]or not, you shouldn't make it about it that necessarily. Everyone who's here in this house tonight is a winner. — Taraji P. Henson
The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class. — Paul Feig
"Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's that good. — David Bianculli
The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast. — Charles Keating
The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast. — Charles Keating, Jr.
I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that. — Christina Hendricks
I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy. — Noah Wyle
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award. — Tony Randall
In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no how. I can't seem to get over that line. — Viola Davis
Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha. — Allison Janney
Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry. — Dinah Shore
Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967. — Betty Lynn
My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care. — Jim Parsons
I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day. — Ellen Pompeo
Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear. — Edmund Landau
Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night. — Dick Van Dyke
Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are. — Bruce Vilanch
I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing. — Michael C. Hall
The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they’re not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, "If you’d done that in the movie, you’d have won an Oscar, girl." — Chris Rock
To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university. — David Hilbert
I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for “Best Special Effects.” — Joan Rivers
I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral. — Ellen DeGeneres
A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped drinking, I'd be playing handball with John Belushi right now. — John Larroquette
But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar. — Ellen DeGeneres
Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win...not many. — Christopher Judge
I don't know what's going on that I'm hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it's an honor and a privilege that I'm the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good. — Julie Chen
Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy. — Noah Wyle
But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too. — Gavin MacLeod
Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar. — John Ratzenberger
I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two. — Andrew Lloyd Webber
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