DGA Awards 2016: The 12 Most Unforgettable Quotes from Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Regina King and More

Find what the stars had to say at last night's annual gala

By Marc Malkin Feb 07, 2016 4:59 PMTags
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Leonardo DiCaprio, DGAFrederick M. Brown/Getty Images

It was another win for Alejandro González Iñárritu last night at the DGA Awards.

For the second year in a row, he picked up the award for outstanding directorial achievement in feature film for The Revenant. With that, the Mexican filmmaker became the first director to win the award in back-to-back years after being honored last year for Birdman.

The more than three-hour award show at the Hyatt Regency Century City hotel recognized directors of commercials, televisions and film.

Here, I give you 12 of the evening's most unforgettable quotes...

1. "My one and only experience with a Trojan"— Host Jane Lynch on entering the ballroom accompanied by the USC marching band

2. "This hug, this embrace you're giving to me today is going to a whole country, a whole Latin American community in this country. The people who live here contribute a lot to this country"—Alejandro G. Iñárritu while accepting the award for outstanding directorial achievement in feature film for his work on The Revenant

3. "Eddie Redmayne had to take a pay cut halfway through The Danish Girl"—James Corden on the gender pay gap

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4. "I think it's one of the best examples of film I've seen this year. However, I have to say that the only other film, and this is almost true, that I've seen this year is Daddy's Home, which is an excellent film"—Christian Bale praising The Big Short while helping to introduce its director Adam McKay, who also co-produced the Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg comedy

5. "He genuinely cared about the millions of people that lost their homes and savings. He tried his best to give them at the very least an explanation for how and why this happened to them"—Ryan Gosling on Adam McKay making The Big Short

6. "I'm proud to be part of a film that literally is giving voice to the voiceless, that is speaking for a group of people who have been marginalized for decades"—Rachel McAdams on Spotlight, which follows The Boston Globe's investigation into the Catholic Church's cover-up of child molestation by priests

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7. "We met for cheeseburgers and martinis—Director Tom McCarthy on meeting Rachel McAdams for the first time before casting her in Spotlight.

8. "I hope that this film will give voice to those trapped by the cycle of violence in hopes that one day the cycle will end"—Matthew Heineman while accepting the best documentary feature directing award for Cartel Land, which follows groups fighting the drug cartels on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border

9. "And I learned how to pole dance, twerk and simulate sex on stage watching Hannah Montana"—Regina King on the power of children's television programming

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10. "The Revenant ultimately was for everyone involved a life changing experience and I want to thank you Alejandro for letting me be a part of it, for taking the chance on the film, for taking the chance on me and thank you for being an outsider who has and always will commit unconditionally to your vision"—Leonardo DiCaprio while introducing Iñárritu

11. "Leo, we weren't cold at all. Just saying. There's another way to go"—Matt Damon on making The Martian

12. "The DGA is 80…that's eight decades or to put it in perspective, the average age of every voting member of the Academy"—Jane Lynch

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