Academy Quotes

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

I can't compare these movies (Vampire Academy/Twilight/Harry Potter). Every single one of them has their own mythology.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

Juliet had it easy; she never had to kill Romeo.

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.

Тhere isnʹt much I wouldnʹt do for you. Тhe stupider, the better.

Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you're becoming a star performer in the show.

I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?

You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

VAMPIRE ACADEMY: Rose- See something you like? Dimitri- Get dressed. LAST SACRIFICE: Rose- See something you like? Dimitri- Lots

If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?

You did what you did out of love. I can't be mad at you over that. It was stupid, but that's how love is. Do you have any idea what I'd do for you? To keep you safe?

For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.