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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy!

The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but it was quite an accomplishment at the Hebrew Academy.

Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.

I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

That's what I was supposed to say.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has.

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

Don't worry, I won't bite. At least not in the way you're afraid of.

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results

Mount Calvary is the academy of love.

Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Not everything's made to win an Academy Award.

Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please.

None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was being held in the grip of a really ripped, really tall, and really pissed off Russian guy.

Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

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