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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. -- Steve Martin
Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home. -- George Clooney
Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities. -- Eduardo Paes
Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service! -- Billy Crystal
Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending. -- John Hodgman
Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it. -- Casey Kasem
[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career. -- Rob Lowe
Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do. -- Michael Ian Black
Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation. -- Todd Newton
Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete. -- Michael Ian Black
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
If I end up hosting 'Joker's Wild,' please shoot me. -- Anderson Cooper
When hosting a party, move any clutter from the space where you're entertaining. -- Pippa Middleton
I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host. -- Maury Povich
I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no. -- Seth MacFarlane
It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim. -- Christina Aguilera
Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark. -- Don Cornelius
I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people. It's the perfect job. -- Wink Martindale
A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing. -- Chris Jericho
On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do. -- Zachary Levi
I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I'm not sure I would want to be a reality star continuously. -- NeNe Leakes
I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
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It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food. -- Dick Cavett
Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.' -- Andy Cohen
But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone. -- Garry Shandling
I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door. -- Neil Patrick Harris
They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less. -- Kiana Tom
If you want proof that 'Catfish' was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really bad at it. That's partly what makes me good at hosting a reality show. -- Nev Schulman
It is true that I do not wear shoes as the host of 'Bunk.' I want 'Bunk' to feel like there's a slight possibility that a confident homeless man just wondered into the studio and started hosting a game show. -- Kurt Braunohler
Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world. -- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself. -- Jane Pauley
I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people. -- Dax Shepard
I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought, 'If these guys can do it, then so can I.' -- Denis Leary
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film. -- Ralph Fiennes
Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program. -- Alex Trebek
I liked watching myself on TV. My first job was hosting the 'Roommate Game'. -- Dave Annable
Today, I will offer free web hosting and developpement helps for projects under Sourceforge -- Linus Torvalds
As long as I don't end up hosting a skin care commercial with Cher, I'm happy. -- Jon Stewart
Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally. -- Michael Palin
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected. -- Bob Barker
I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas. -- Logan Mankins
If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done. -- Bob Saget
Energy is always paramount when hosting a live show, because you need every synapse firing, so you can think fast on your feet. -- Samantha Harris
I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month. -- Barack Obama
I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and asking questions... I'm actually able to perform a little bit. -- Vinny Guadagnino
I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and ask-ing questions... I'm actually able to perform a little bit. -- Vinny Guadagnino
There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality. -- Kevin Hart
I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show. -- Ellie Kemper
My show is not just a cop hosting a talk show - the two are completely different. My show is about helping people stand up to the bad guy. -- Steve Wilkos
The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site. -- Jason Calacanis
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya. -- Ralph Fiennes
I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it's been a lot of fun. -- Drew Carey
The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show. -- Garry Shandling
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture. -- Eddie Huang
We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life. -- Anthony Principi
At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children. -- Arsenio Hall
Regis Philbin's back in primetime, hosting 11 new episodes of 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.' But because of Obama's tax plan, it's been re-titled 'Who Wants To Win Just Under $250,000.' -- Jimmy Fallon
The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people. -- Alexander Haig
Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food. -- Dick Cavett
I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit. -- Lisa Whelchel
I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit." -- Lisa Whelchel
A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow. -- Jimmy Fallon

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