Academy Quotes · Page 7

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

— Robin Williams

“The Academy days were half physical activity. It was like half the day was gym. Stabby, stabby gym.”

— Cassandra Clare

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

— Mark Kelly

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

— Douglas Adams

I never thought of starting a cricket academy because every second person is starting a cricket academy.

— Gautam Gambhir

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

— Brad Goreski

I was at an academy for basically my whole life when I played tennis, so I had the same schedule every single…

— Jennifer Brady

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

— Mark Ruffalo

It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting.…

— Michael Caine

When I spent time in the academy, exchanging ideas with young players, being on the field, the way they were looking at…

— Patrick Vieira

There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said,…

— David Copperfield

All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won…

— Clint Eastwood

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know…

— Josef Albers

I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my…

— James McAvoy

I signed for a club when I was eight and went straight from school into a YTS academy. I've never lived in…

— Joey Barton

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at…

— Saina Nehwal

I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy…

— Kimiko Glenn

It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock."…

— Ally Carter

I tell my kids in the Academy at Newcastle to watch Henry. He plays with such a swagger, not an arrogance, and…

— Peter Beardsley

Naturally, I was thrilled but being the first year, the Academy Awards had no background or tradition, and it naturally didn’t mean…

— Janet Gaynor

The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and…

— Liam Neeson

I always felt like the Academy was very late in acknowledging things. I've seen them do it with hip hop when it…

— Steve Stoute

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction…

— Harold Bloom

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

— Garry Wills

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.

— Jack Wilshere

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

— Aidan Gallagher

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

— John Charles Polanyi

One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.

— Ara Parseghian

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

— Danila Kozlovsky

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

— Donald O'Connor

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

— Sean Patrick Flanery

The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.

— Darcey Bussell

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

— Joan Rivers

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

— Henny Youngman

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

— Brenda Blethyn

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

— Matt Stone

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

— Andrea Martin

“If it took me showing some warmth to get warmth in return, I'd do it.”

— C.L. Stone

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

— David Letterman