Academy Quotes - page 8

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. (Charles Glover Barkla)
To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office. View quote
Don Simpson
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. View quote
Fred Gwynne
If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard. View quote
Gabriel E. Gomez
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. View quote
Kimiko Glenn
Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. View quote
Mark Kelly
I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies. View quote
Mary Badham
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.' View quote
Matt Stone
So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well. View quote
Neville Marriner
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. View quote
Pieter Zeeman
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. (Rachael Taylor)
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. View quote
Rachael Taylor
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. View quote
Robert Osborne
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. View quote
Robert Osborne
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. View quote
Robert Stromberg
I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards. View quote
Sacheen Littlefeather
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of. View quote
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Hollywood - that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting. View quote
Shirley Knight
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. View quote
Stephanie Beacham
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. View quote
Sue Mengers
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. (Suzanne Fields)
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. View quote
T. J. Miller
I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.' View quote
Todd Phillips
Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee. View quote
Valerie Harper
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. View quote
Cher