Betty Gabriel Quotes

I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

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

At the Emmys, you've got a bunch of people who are used to being on TV on TV. You don't have that at the Oscars. At the Oscars, you have people who are used to having 40 takes.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

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

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 don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

I don't get starstruck by Hollywood celebrities as I'm not into films.

I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.

I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.

In Hollywood, Oscar is king.

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.

Hollywood is a world all its own.

You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

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 have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.