Top 360 Academy Quotes

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.

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.

I have three sisters. I went to an all-girls academy.

‘Twilight’ is very different to the ‘Vampire Academy,’ completely.

Before ‘Titanic,’ yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it’s just a bit daft for me.

When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.

For me, the youth academy has a fundamental role in every club.

I know the Academy Awards are all about the art, and love, of movie making. But I have to say, my favorite part is the dresses!

It’s always fun to do another season of The Umbrella Academy.’

My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood.

Surprise! Surprise! An Academy Award nomination and suddenly you’re outed? Did I mind? Oh, very, very much.

At the top end, the pathway from academy to first team has never been more difficult for home-grown youngsters.

I mean, my understanding is that the live-action and the comic book versions of the Umbrella Academy’ will parallel with each other while still keeping their distance, so that fans of the comic books who have already read the storyline has something new to look forward to and in approaching a new season.

I consider it probably one of the biggest honors to be in the Academy. There are only like 1300 actors in it, and as far as I know, you’re a member for life. To this day, I’m wondering how lucky I was.

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

I went to a small high school in – down in south Georgia. Terrell Academy is the name of it.

Kids will never go under the radar any more because there are so many scouts at grassroots level. Also, if you come out of a professional academy, it’s a very lonely place for a child and some kids don’t bounce back from it.

Shooting Umbrella Academy’ is like shooting five movies. You’re working with a cast of incredibly talented 30-year-olds who all know what their mission is.

When I left Kentucky at age 18 to attend the U.S. Naval Academy and lifted my right hand to swear the oath to defend our Constitution, I did so willingly.

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

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.

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

At one point, I was greenlighting films and scripts that shouldn’t have been made based on the fact that they had that stamp of approval of an Academy Award winner. And the good news is I got to learn the real process of filmmaking – directing, storyboarding, writing.

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.

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

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

In high school and college, I’d set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a ‘Star Wars’ movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects.

At the Barcelona youth academy, I lived right next to Camp Nou, but I spent my days watching movies.

Learning about WWII at the U.S. Naval Academy taught me about military tactics and the importance of fighting for our country’s highest ideals.

One of my most rewarding congressional duties is nominating future military leaders to study at America’s service academies. The exceptional young men and women who receive these coveted nominations earn a top-of-the-line education and the opportunity to serve their country as a military officer.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always ‘played up’ against older age groups.

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.

When I used to try and describe what the Khan Academy was, I would tell people that if it were a for-profit, I would be on the cover of ‘Forbes.’

If there is a flaw in the academy system it’s that they try to tell them everything. Kids are taught the same. They look the same. So you’re constantly looking for the X factor. It’s the hardest thing, that mystical ingredient, instinct, the four-second hit, like/dislike, it can come unbelievably quickly.

Oh yeah, I’m about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.

My dream was to win an Academy Award. But my other dream was to win the Super Bowl, and there’s a chance that might not happen, either.

When I occasionally indulge in sort of a ‘look back’ at highlights, it’s so interesting – it almost never comes from an image on a set or even the Academy Awards. It’s almost always a family trip or meeting and falling in love with Cheryl.

I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard of. Luckily, I got in at the first attempt.

It definitely takes a long time, because Umbrella Academy’ scenes are very interesting from a writing point of view with all these very off-the-cuff, oddball characters who are all different from each other.

There is a lot of extra responsibility on you as a player from the academy. You’re expected to play and act as a signing, which is pressure, but in a way it pushes you to get a better performance out of yourself.

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.

With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.

There are so many opportunities to learn things online, like between Coursera and Khan Academy and Duolingo. There are these awesome websites that are kind of these little personal Aristotles. There are times when I’m preparing for a role of some kind, and then I’ll focus on a certain subject.

I plan to establish my own academy.

Ever since I was a young kid, I’ve been playing for an academy with scouts all over the world that are looking for top players to come in.

I lived at home while attending the University of Western Australia in Perth, while doing a gap year and – partly – while attending the Academy of Performing Arts on the other side of town.

My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn’t want to be in and didn’t understand. He was extremely conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.

I’ve been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I’m doing.

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.

What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people.

I began my journey as a 16-year-old boy at the Arsenal’s academy, trying to one day become a first team player, going out for evening runs in East Barnet with Jack Wilshere.

In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Jews have been harmed by the threats to freedom of opinion and debate, the punishments for candor, and the decline in rigorous standards in the academy that have accompanied progressive hegemony, which insists upon the sacrosanct status of affirmative action and other policies favored by the left.