Emmys Quotations

I'm most excited to meet Jon Hamm at the Emmys.

Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

I think the most important thing about the Emmys stuff is just to enjoy it. It can get really stressful in weird ways, and I have definitely experienced that. This year, I really just want to have it be a fun celebration!

What am I going to wear to the Emmys? Something with a tie.

I was never upset that I did not get an Emmy. That I did get an Emmy nomination, I couldn't be happier and prouder.

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.

I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

I'm not into the Oscar and Emmys as much as I used to be because I'm tired of looking at people who don't look like me.

When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.

I got more phone calls about that moment on the Emmys than almost anything else in a long time.

H Stern was one of the first people to let me borrow their diamonds to wear to an awards show. At the Emmys last year, when I was such a has-been, no one would give me a dress.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

When Ellen came back with the Emmys (in November 2001), she was coming back to a culture that had been put on total and complete hold, ... a felicitous coincidence.

To some extent, the Oscars and Emmys are the mother of all awards shows and are immune to that. But then, who would have guessed that Miss America would be leaving Atlantic City and playing on a cable channel that didn't exist several decades ago?

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.

I'm proud to continue supporting Global Green's smart climate solutions by riding to the Emmys in a fuel-efficient hybrid. In the aftermath of Katrina, we especially need to do everything we can to conserve gas and other energy resources such as driving fuel-efficient cars.

I don't know how that works out, ... 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.

The Emmys seem like an entity unto themselves that have an agenda that sometimes corresponds to quality, sometimes doesn't.

I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

I guess I don't have to point this out, that it's the second time I've hosted the Emmys after a national tragedy. And I just want to say that I'm honored because it's times like this that we really need laughter,

This is the second time I've hosted the Emmys after a national tragedy,