Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.

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

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

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

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.

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.