Best 'Emmy' Quotes
by Shannon KeirnanOh, the “Emmy Awards.” What fun they supply us. Great fashion, beautiful people, maybe a nip slip or two.
And the quotes, of course. Nothing like a little celebrity sass on the red carpet, right? Here’s a few of the juiciest ones:
"It is a marathon, not a sprint—a lot of vegetables, a lot of cross training, a lot of oxygenating my blood. Steroids, basically. I take comedy steroids."
--Amy Poehler on intense shooting schedules for “Parks and Recreation”
"I don't know, I think it's my child-bearing hips."
--Stephen Colbert on becoming 69 on Maxim's Hot 100 list—of women.
"I bought tickets for them, do you think I'm going to smuggle them?"
--Sofia Vergara on bringing her family along with her
"Yeah, that's not a problem, that's not the issue. It's the issue of whether they wanna see that much intensity onscreen, because that's what I plan to bring."
—Max Greenfield commenting on the option of playing Christian Grey in“Fifty Shades of Grey” and the full-frontal nudity audiences would demand
"I'm just happy to be alive, I just gotta be honest--Amanda Bynes gave me a ride over. I am just happy to be here."
--Jimmy Fallon
"I have to shave his neck and do the slow fade down his back so it looks natural."
—Leslie Mann discussing getting her husband, Judd Apatow, red-carpet ready
"Very nervous. If I stand up too straight, there's a possibility. So if I hunch, that's why. It's not because I have terrible posture, it's from fear of things coming out."
--Kat Dennings on her ready-to-spring bosom
"I just had such a good time on “The Good Wife” and on “Curb” and on “Rescue Me,” and a couple other things I did, and I just thought, why just sit around and get fat and old? Why don't I get back to work?"
—Michael J. Fox on returning to television