Tom O'Neil Oscar Quotations

In some ways, your Oscar speech is as important as the movie performance that got you the award. It's your chance to live forever in showbiz history. Or bore them to tears and come off as selfish and pampered.

The nominations are both the start and the stop of this year's Oscars race.

It's the most suspenseful Oscars I ever recall. There are more cliffhangers at the year's awards than I think we've seen in modern history.

It's the most suspenseful Oscars I ever recall, ... There are more cliffhangers at the year's awards than I think we've seen in modern history.

You don't mock the importance of the event. This isn't the MTV Music Video Awards. We expect the Oscar host to be like a beloved aunt or uncle on stage playing the ringmaster to a family reunion.