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The Emmys are flat-out fun. -- Melissa Rivers
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest. -- William Devane
I'm most excited to meet Jon Hamm at the Emmys. -- Bree Turner
I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will. -- Denis Leary
I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing. -- Michael C. Hall
I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go. -- Andy Cohen
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award. -- Tony Randall
Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt. -- Charles Keating
The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place. -- Allison Williams
Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing. -- Amanda Eliasch
When you feel an audience engaged and surprised and enthusiastic, reacting to what you've planned, that is the reward. It's better than the Emmys. -- George Stevens, Jr.
America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show. -- Pierre Salinger
I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set. -- Dick Van Dyke
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. -- Alan Alda
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. -- Sherri Shepherd
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. -- Hank Azaria
I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying. -- Bob Newhart
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
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. -- Jimmy Kimmel
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
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 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! -- Connie Britton
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
What am I going to wear to the Emmys? Something with a tie. -- Timothy Olyphant
Who doesn't want to go to the Emmys? But it ends up just being really boring. -- Michael J. Nelson
Louis CK went from a writer/comedian to winning Emmys for his own show because he works his ass off. -- Ted Alexandro
I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for "Best Special Effects." -- Joan Rivers
The Emmys are honestly very unpredictable. I mean, have you looked at my Emmy record? I was nominated 6 times for ER and won once. -- Julianna Margulies
Frank Sebastiano is a real write. He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Chris Rock Show' . The only award I have is an FM-mmy. -- Artie Lange
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. -- Hank Azaria
I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day.. I didn't see it last night when I watched the Emmys. -- Ellen Pompeo
I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one. -- Kurt Fuller
There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him. -- Hillary Clinton
The one place you don't want to wear shorts is any major awards show. You can wear them to the Teen Choice or Kids' Choice awards, but not the Oscars or the Emmys. -- Peter Som
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
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
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
Hosting the Emmys is a challenge for me. I guess it's the equivalent of someone who needs to climb a mountain or jump out of a plane. It's that kind of thing, where this could go terribly wrong. And I love the feeling of when it goes right. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system. -- Michael Moore
I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. -- Mindy Kaling
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

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