Emmys Quotes

• Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

  Viola Davis

  Winning, Opportunity, Color

  "Viola Davis Becomes the First African-American to Win Emmy for Best Actress in Drama" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. September 21, 2015.

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• You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

  Viola Davis

  Winning, Roles, Actresses

  "Zendaya Posts Beautiful Thank You to Viola Davis After Her History-Making Emmy Win" by Noelle Devo, www.seventeen.com. September 21, 2015.

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• Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.

  Edmund Landau

  Women, Said, Mathematical

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• Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.

  David Hilbert

  Sex, Firsts, Discrimination

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• I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

  William H. Macy

  Writing, Thinking, Doors

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• Woke up this morning to the incredible news that I was nominated for an Emmy, and a shower full of dog poop. Apparently my dog is so excited, she has explosive diarrhea. I truly could not be more thankful to the Emmy voters for including me in this brilliant company of extraordinary women. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up an enormous amount of dog poop out of my shower. Yay!

  Martha Plimpton

  Dog, Morning, Voters

  "Emmy Reactions: What the Nominated Stars and Execs Say". www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 14, 2011.

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• 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

  Dream, Jobs, Writing

  "Flick Chicks" by Mindy Kaling, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

  William Devane

  Popularity, Contests, Popularity Contest

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• I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.

  Noah Wyle

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

  Tony Randall

  Thinking, Awards, Aggravation

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• Who doesn't want to go to the Emmys? But it ends up just being really boring.

  Michael J. Nelson

  Being Real, Just Being, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Bree Turner

  Excited

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• I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone.

  Max Greenfield

  Writing, Phones, Email

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Business, Awards, Hollywood

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• Mama?" "Yes, Emmy." She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?" Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable.

  Karen White

  Mother, Pain, Rain

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• Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

  Nancy Werlin

  Love You, Mean, People

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• I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Awards, Oscars

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

  Andy Cohen

  Chef, Only Time

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• "Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's that good.

  David Bianculli

  Drama, Years, Next Year

  "In 'Transparent,' A 70-Year-Old Divorced Dad Comes Out As A Woman". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. September 26, 2014.

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• I remember having a feeling like, 'I can't believe this is happening!' Two years ago I was auditioning for The Disney Channel, and now Paul Rudd is saying, 'Hey man, congratulations on your Emmy nomination!

  Max Greenfield

  Congratulations, Believe, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  Nathan Fillion

  Thinking, Hands, Trying

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

  Cyndi Lauper

  Grammy

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

  Denis Leary

  Golden, Globes

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• 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

  Kings, Winning, Awards

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• Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

  Elon Musk

  Winning, Years, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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