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Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

— Michael Caine

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

I love the Oscars. All sorts of tacky people win. And watching everyone run up and down those aisles is just adorable.

— Geraldine Page

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

— Sally Field

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

— Tim Robbins

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

— Benicio Del Toro

I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

— Richard Attenborough

I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.

— Anna Paquin

I am always a little surprised when anyone sees anything I make, so being nominated for the Oscar is beyond amazing - what a tremendous honor.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

✗Opposing Perspectives

Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

— Steve Carell

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

— Javier Bardem