Emmys 2015: Best Quotes from the Show

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"Let's not forget what tonight is really about, celebrating hilarious women and letting the Internet weigh in on who looks the worst."
– Amy Schumer, before presenting the award for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series to Allison Janney with Amy Poehler

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"I'm so glad I got to follow the cast of Empire. This stage just got significantly less attractive."
– Last Week Tonight host John Oliver on taking the stage after Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard

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"I had a teacher who told me you have to act like your life depends on it; now I've been given the opportunity to act because people's lives depend on it."
– Jeffrey Tambor on his Transparent role while accepting the award for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series

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"Justin Timberlake is not coming."
– Host Andy Samberg squashing early hopes that his frequent sketch partner JT would be making an Emmys appearance

05 of 13

"I just had a fear my zipper is down."
– Veep star Tony Hale in the middle of his outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series acceptance speech

06 of 13

"You're a television icon. You've been part of our lives for decades and decades and decades …"
"I get it, I'm old."
– Gina Rodriguez teasing co-presenter John Stamos

07 of 13

"That was Lady Gaga. So Dad, what did you do last night?"
– A star-struck Richard Jenkins after accepting his award for best lead actor in a limited series for Olive Kitteridge from Mother Monster

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ON HER EMMY-WINNING SHOW INSIDE AMY SCHUMER — Kevin Winter/Getty

"This show fights for what we believe in."
– Amy Schumer on Inside Amy Schumer while accepting the award for best variety sketch series

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"To everybody on television I just want to tell you to cling to it as long as you can. Like death, like in the Titanic. I've been off of television for six weeks, seven weeks, whatever it is; this is the first applause I've heard. It is a barren wasteland out there."
– Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart in his acceptance speech for outstanding variety talk show

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"I love you mostly because you let me be me."
– Outstanding supporting actress in a drama series winner and Orange Is the New Black star Uzo Aduba tearfully thanking her team during her acceptance speech

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"I was pulling for Chandler. I just love that dude."
– Host Andy Samberg professing his preference for Bloodline star Kyle Chandler after Jon Hamm's long-awaited outstanding lead actor in a drama series win for Mad Men

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"The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there. So here's to all the writers … the people who have redefined what it means to be beautiful, to be sexy, to be a leading woman, to be black."
– Outstanding lead actress in a drama winner Viola Davis while accepting the award for her role on Hot to Get Away with Murder

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"Last year Jimmy Kimmel said on the stage, 'We'll see you back here next year, Tracy Morgan.' Well, Jimmy, thanks to my amazing doctors and the support of my family and my beautiful new wife, I’m here, standing on my own two feet and God bless all of you for your love, your prayers and the thoughts over the past 15 months."
– Tracy Morgan on returning to the stage after being critically injured in a 2014 traffic collision, before presenting Game of Thrones with the award for outstanding drama series

The Most Hilarious and Heartwarming Quotes from the Emmy Awards