Academy Quotes

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.
Clint Eastwood

Great, Best, Movies

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

School, Football, Philosophy

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

School, Military, Mission

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.
Jon Stewart

Time, Second, Asked

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

Last, Guy, Overlooked

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Father, After, Born

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Father, Parents, Different

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

Life, Music, Honor

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.
Cher

Again, Promise, Apologize

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.
James Buchan

Long, American, Though

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.
Harvey Weinstein

Work, Good, Hope

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.
Edward Norton

Good, Business, Movies

The Academy is paranoid about its image.
Roger Ebert

Paranoid, Image

Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.
Jeffrey Kluger

Best, Mind, Job

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!
Katherine Jenkins

Good, Best, Class

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.
Alan Dershowitz

Government, School, Important

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.
Kyle Chandler

School, Mean, Study

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

Courage, Generosity, Thank

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

Four, Arts, Degree

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.
Jeremy Renner

Experience, Job, Play

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.
Marlee Matlin

Best, Old, Days

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.
Roy H. Williams

Business, School, Why

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

Greatest, Written, Scripts

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

Acting, Seven, Trial

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.
John Hawkes

Amazing, Sleep, Through

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.
Evelyn Glennie

Music, Future, Said

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

Win, Wanted, Film

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.
Albert Brooks

Knows, Politician, Iowa

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.
Melissa Rosenberg

Life, Best, Winning

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
Josef Albers

Time, Good, Before

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