Mira Sorvino Quotes

I really don't think about the Oscars.

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.

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.

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.

For any of you who don't know, the Golden Globes are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker, and more easily bought.

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 can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

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

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.

I had been watching the Emmys since I was probably 5 years old. Those shows, when you're a kid, it all seems like such a big, big deal, and only special certain people would win one of these big things like a Tony or an Emmy or an Oscar.

I never watched any award show.

What I really want is an Oscar.

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.

In Hollywood, Oscar is king.

People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.

It's so crazy 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.

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.

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

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.