Academy Quotes · Page 6

In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.

— Erno Rubik

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

— Rachael Taylor

I've always wanted to have some sort of academy or program that links education and basketball.

— Luol Deng

I have a dance academy in Mumbai that my husband takes care of.

— Sudha Chandran

There is a big emphasis at Liverpool to have an academy that brings through young players.

— Trent Alexander-Arnold

Every day, I was on the street dribbling, doing skills. I wasn't in an academy till I was 19.

— Riyad Mahrez

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

— Thomas Ruff

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

— Todd Phillips

There is a lot of extra responsibility on you as a player from the academy. You're expected to play and act as…

— Todd Cantwell

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just…

— Elton John

With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis…

— Douglas Brunt

There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed…

— Steve Martin

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

— Helen Hunt

Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my…

— Marilyn Monroe

I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper.…

— Mary Badham

And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich…

— Santiago Martinez Delgado

Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who…

— Michael Ellsberg

When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was…

— George Andrew Olah

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x…

— Don Cheadle

My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around.…

— Robert Stromberg

There is another domain that we consider relevant and having good prospects - marine biology. For many years this region [Russian Far…

— Vladimir Putin

Back in 1995, I was young, fresh out of the academy and jobless.

— Mukul Dev

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

— Malcolm McDowell

I think La Masia is the most important academy in the world. The coaches and the whole club helps you for your…

— Gerard Deulofeu

I love to perform at various award functions and one day I would like to open a dance academy.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

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

— Paige VanZant

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

— Dustin Hoffman

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

— Aaron Sorkin

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

— Denzel Washington

If you want to improve the football, of course you need to put attention on the academy, on the school, the facility.

— Fabio Cannavaro

I'm a member of BAFTA, so I vote in all the films that come up for the Academy Awards.

— Ray Fearon

When I went to the academy, we watched Arsenal because of Guillou's connection with Arsene.

— Gervinho

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

— Cecily Strong

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

— John Singleton

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

— Roger Ross Williams

At Southampton, my dad was the academy coach at under-11 level.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

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

— Luise Rainer