LOS ANGELES — Beyond Ellen Degeneres' multi-celebrity selfie, which became Twitter's most-retweeted tweet ever, the 86th Academy Awards delivered emotional onstage speeches and musical performances.
But backstage, unseen and unheard by the TV audience, the night's big winners offered a more unusual variety of statements.
Mashable spent the Oscars in the press room, where every winner answered questions from the media. Their answers ranged from quirky to serious. Below, we've listed eight standout quotes on topics as diverse as Van Halen, YouTube and poop.
See also: Oscars 2014: Complete List of Winners
"Does anybody want to try [the Oscar statuette] out for size? You can. If anybody wants to fondle. Here. Pass it around, but if you have swine flu, please don't touch. I think this is the first, the first person to ever give their Oscar away for an orgy in the press room. My God. Anyway. So, sorry." ~ Jared Leto, winner Best Supporting Actor for Dallas Buyers Club
"I feel like Willie Wonka in the chocolate factory." ~ Lupita Nyong’o, winner of Best Supporting Actress for 12 Years a Slave
"Don't you f_cking forget it." Cate Blanchett, winner of Best Actress winner for Blue Jasmine, after a reporter told her she's the first Australian actor or actress ever to win two Oscars.
"I had to clean up dog poop today ... in my bedroom." ~ Brad Pitt, producer of 12 Years a Slave, when asked how he calmed his nerves and prepared for the Oscars.
"But every single day on my Facebook or on my Twitter, I get some kind of testimonial from somebody who says this song kept me from committing suicide, or this song got me through the cancer treatment for my kids, and that is just so meaningful to us that our song can go and give hugs to people like that." ~ songwriter Kristen Anderson-Lopez of Frozen's "Let It Go"
"I'm as cool as a cucumber right now. Absolutely. You saw the jump, of course. I mean everyone's talking about the jump, but it's just really truly ‑‑ I was just so ecstatic, so happy for us all. And, you know, it's one of those moments in life where, you know, is he ‑‑ it might not ever happen again, and you're living it, and you're there. It's not a dream. It's a reality. So emotions, physicality just takes over. So, you know, Van Halen: Jump." ~ Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave
"Just like everybody else, we watched all the YouTubes. We still do. And then to watch the songs, it was sort of a slow climb up, especially with the soundtrack, and it just took over. And that song, 'Let It Go, became sort of anthem for people. So for us it's ‑‑ you know, we love the song, but the fact that the world suddenly could take it and make it their own, it's unbelievable." Peter Del Vecho, producer of Frozen
"And I'm standing here now. It's something that I got to ‑‑ I got a prize for excellence for the work I do in something that's not my job, it's not my hobby and it's not my fad; it's my career. That feels wonderful. And I didn't say it to my ‑‑ it's a very special thing that happened. 1992 I was one week into working on my first job, Dazed and Confused, my father moved on six days into working on my job. Now in hindsight I've looked back, he got to be alive for me doing the one thing that was not my fad, hobby or job, we didn't know it then, but it turned out to be my career, and that's why I was actually ‑‑ he came to my mind tonight in speaking about him. It feels wonderful. Yeah. It feels wonderful."
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