The Academy Quotes

the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least for a while, to see what the world looks like from outside it.

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.

I don't know if I could [do a TV show]. I would if it had nothing to do with the comic. It would be really weird and maybe not feature any of The Umbrella Academy characters.

It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy.

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers.

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.

The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.

I enjoyed Ready For This, which was created by the people behind Dance Academy and Redfern Now, and really it's what you'd get if you crossed Redfern Now with Dance Academy

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.

I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.

For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

What are you? An after school special?

Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal.

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.

There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.

I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

It's my duty as a guardian to protect Cross Academy, day and night.

Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.

Malicious or not, strong leaders always attracted followers

Do you love him?"There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time.

Clearly my stunning beauty has clouded your mind." - Rose Hathaway

Where's the heart?" - Dimitri Belikov