The Academy Quotes

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

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

You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing 'Crank,' and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'

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

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

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

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.

As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.

Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.

Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself.

Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

We just constantly worked on second Saw film, it's not an Academy award level film, but we worked as hard we could to make it plausible.

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

Annette Bening should've won Oscar for American Beauty. I mean, I know Hilary Swank was there, she was so great too... Annette deserves one. She better win. I'm an Academy voter, and I voted for her.

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

I didn't practise it loads when I was at the academy in Spain, but when I got on the ATP Tour it's something I dedicated a lot of time to.

There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

Obviously movies like this [Fast and the Furious 7] don't get any love from the Academy. If they do, it may be special effects or sound editing or something like that.

If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.

We don't even know who's in the Academy.

All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, "You're only as good as you dare to be bad."

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know.

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America's taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.