Quotes about Academy

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. Votes: 5

I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus. Votes: 5

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career. Votes: 5

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow. Votes: 5

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. Votes: 5

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! Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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 Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school. Votes: 5

I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute. Votes: 5

I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track. Votes: 5

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor. Votes: 4

Academy Awards don't really solve anything. Votes: 3

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. Votes: 3

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky. Votes: 3

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious. Votes: 3

The Academy is paranoid about its image. Votes: 3

Not everything's made to win an Academy Award. Votes: 3

We don't even know who's in the Academy. Votes: 3

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award Votes: 3

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award. Votes: 3

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards. Votes: 3

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of. Votes: 3

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of, Votes: 3

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well. Votes: 3

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. Votes: 3

the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males. Votes: 3

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.' Votes: 3

Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card. Votes: 3

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. Votes: 3

I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award. Votes: 3

Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover. Votes: 3

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy. Votes: 3

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting. Votes: 3

It's my duty as a guardian to protect Cross Academy, day and night. Votes: 3

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial. Votes: 3

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy. Votes: 3

I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age. Votes: 3

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award. Votes: 3

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American. Votes: 3

What does the Academy Award mean? I don't think it means much of anything. Votes: 3

Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards. Votes: 3

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else. Votes: 3

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award. Votes: 3

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Votes: 3

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get. Votes: 3

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy. Votes: 3

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me. Votes: 3

The first time I came to California was in January 2013, when I auditioned for 'Vampire Academy.' Votes: 3

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me, Votes: 3

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well. Votes: 3

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. Votes: 3

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party. Votes: 3

If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy. Votes: 3

I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category. Votes: 3

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. Votes: 3

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. Votes: 3

Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please. Votes: 3

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience. Votes: 3

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy. Votes: 3

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else. Votes: 3

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. Votes: 3

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. Votes: 3

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. Votes: 3

Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. Votes: 3

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it. Votes: 3

I can't compare these movies (Vampire Academy/Twilight/Harry Potter). Every single one of them has their own mythology. Votes: 3

Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe. Votes: 3

I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool. Votes: 3

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start. Votes: 3

My dad sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.' Votes: 3

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me. Votes: 3

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.' Votes: 3

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. Votes: 3

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there. Votes: 3

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed Votes: 3

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.' Votes: 3

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award. Votes: 3

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig. Votes: 3

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot. Votes: 3

The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy Award voter with a tampon in her purse. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films. Votes: 3

At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars - and worst-dressed stars. But it's the worst-dressed that go down in history. Votes: 3

For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. Votes: 3

You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it. Votes: 3

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards. Votes: 3

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office. Votes: 3

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while. Votes: 3

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid. Votes: 3

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long. Votes: 3

Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academy Awards, and it would never be as much fun as the show. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don't. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall. Votes: 3

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.'. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The Academy for Guided Imagery has created and finely honed an exquisite training program. Years of development and feedback has resulted in a creative program with great integrity and clinical relevance. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy. Votes: 3

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." Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Vampire Academy' was a night shoot, so I got to know London in the darkness and had free time during the day. I saw a lot of theater while I was there. Votes: 3

I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever. Votes: 3

Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age. Votes: 3

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is very difficult to hang because it is so large and the quality is very varied. There are 1,200 works, an almost impossible number, some are interesting and some are not. Votes: 3

As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as she had done in my first year at art school. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture. Votes: 3

If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me at a very young age. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened. Votes: 3

The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast I can't remember what I said or what happened. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums. Votes: 3

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around. Votes: 3

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit. Votes: 3

I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006. Votes: 3

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.' Votes: 3

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays. Votes: 3

I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs. Votes: 3

We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also planning to open local branches of the Hermitage Museum and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. Votes: 3

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience. Votes: 3

I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought. Votes: 3

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly. Votes: 3

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy. Votes: 3

I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange. Votes: 3

It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet Votes: 3

When I was 13, I told my dad I wanted to move to Florida to attend the IMG Academy. I wanted to be a golfer, and that's hard to do in New England where I could only practice half the year. Votes: 3

For anyone who has ever stood before a bathroom mirror and secretly thanked The Academy, a hilarious guide to becoming 'It' in an age where the line between fame and infamy is as fine as a Manolo Blahnik stiletto heel. Votes: 3

I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work. Votes: 3

I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Votes: 3

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football. Votes: 3

In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great. Votes: 3

and the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember... Votes: 3

I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for "LA Confidential" which was great. Votes: 3

My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid?Yeah. You could say that. Votes: 3

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. Votes: 3

The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world. Votes: 3

Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R. Votes: 3

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement. Votes: 3

There is another domain that we consider relevant and having good prospects - marine biology. For many years this region [Russian Far East] has been home for one of the leading institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Marine Biology. Votes: 3

It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script. Votes: 3

The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short Story... But the new Short Story has gained more individuality. It supports the magazines and has invaded the newspapers Votes: 3

I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model. Votes: 3

When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia. Votes: 3

When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Julliard, and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia. Votes: 3

I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, i remember Clifford Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears. Votes: 3

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'. Votes: 3

Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?' I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools Votes: 3

Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you, not me, not the girl next door - who wouldn't like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night. Votes: 3

Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book. Votes: 3

I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers. Votes: 3

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it. Votes: 3

I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner named Bill, who lived with his Mom, and his love affair with Anna, a drug-addicted prostitute. I made that when I was 16. Votes: 3

The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs Votes: 3

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible. Votes: 3

The guidelines say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy. The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it. Votes: 3

There are things that are happening way earlier than [the Oscars] when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie.I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy. Votes: 3

For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.' Votes: 3

You don't expect a 94-year-old white guy to pick "Dope," which was an awesome movie not even close to being considered by the Academy. And that's what it's all about, like, promoting people who might not otherwise get promoted and celebrating people who might not get celebrated. Votes: 3

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. Votes: 3

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. Votes: 3

Now there are reports that Osama bin Laden would like to commit suicide on television. This is the kind of lead-in I have been praying for every since I came to CBS. Bin Laden is planning a televised suicide or, as I call it, hosting the Academy Awards. Votes: 3

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story. Votes: 3

I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it. Votes: 3

When I did The Umbrella Academy, I studied Gabriel Bá's art. I said, "Oh, this is what he likes to do here. Maybe I can push him to do a little more of this." You can play to those strengths. It's a different scenario with each artist. Votes: 3

I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it. Votes: 3

The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge. Votes: 3

I watched all the Academy screeners and I wanted to slit my wrists. Whether they are good or not good, I don't know why you make Foxcatcher? I don't know why you do it. What is it giving anybody except to have Steve Carell put on a rubber nose? Votes: 3

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those! Votes: 3

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best! Votes: 3

It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy". Votes: 3

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that. Votes: 3

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater. Votes: 3

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust. Votes: 3

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians. Votes: 1

Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible. Votes: 1

High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study. Votes: 1

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. Votes: 1

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly. Votes: 1

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy. Votes: 1

My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around. And my dad was a huge fan of Ray Harryhausen. One of our neighbors, who went on to win several Academy Awards, was close friends with my dad. His name is Phil Tippett. Votes: 1

I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool. Votes: 1

Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun. Votes: 1

I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl. Votes: 1

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party. Votes: 1

That best academy, a mother's knee. Votes: 0

Mount Calvary is the academy of love. Votes: 0

There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out. Votes: 0

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike Votes: 0

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things. Votes: 0

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate. Votes: 0

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. Votes: 0

I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy. Votes: 0

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak. Votes: 0

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. Votes: 0

Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air. Votes: 0

VAMPIRE ACADEMY: Rose- See something you like? Dimitri- Get dressed. LAST SACRIFICE: Rose- See something you like? Dimitri- Lots Votes: 0

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them. Votes: 0

How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out. Votes: 0

For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday. Votes: 0

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English. Votes: 0

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs. Votes: 0

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war. Votes: 0

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack. Votes: 0

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award? Votes: 0

I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you wouldn't know that if you looked through a typical women's studies textbook or website. Votes: 0

It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I've seen this first-hand. Votes: 0