Academy Quotes · Page 6

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

— Jack Nicholson

There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.

— Aubrey Plaza

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

— David Naughton

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

— Neville Marriner

It's great having a good academy, but if you can't pay the players you're producing, what's the point of it?

— Alun Wyn Jones

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

— Harold Bloom

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

— Garbine Muguruza

Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

— Walter Darby Bannard

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function…

— Robert K. G. Temple

Ever since I was a young kid, I've been playing for an academy with scouts all over the world that are looking…

— Danny Welbeck

I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because…

— James Spader

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make…

— Bill Bruford

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common…

— Erwin Chargaff

Obviously movies like this [Fast and the Furious 7] don't get any love from the Academy. If they do, it may be…

— Bun B

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real…

— Pat Morita

“n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.    ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“If you don't have anything useful to offer, then get out of here and let us wait until hunger weakens Sonya." And…

— Richelle Mead

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.…

— Edward Norton

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development.…

— Mike Pompeo

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself,…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of…

— Pieter Zeeman

“Trying to figure out why Radley’s such a horse’s butt is all." "It’s a course we take at the academy," that deep…

— Trish Milburn

Twenty-eight years ago, I created my first game on an Apple II in my bedroom closet at a time when the interactive…

— Richard Garriott

I think Straight Outta Compton is one of the greatest biopics, but I am biased on that one, obviously. There are some…

— Bun B

If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.

— Peter Senge

Why should someone be allowed to remain a voting member of the Academy if they are no longer active in the industry?

— Roger Ross Williams

Getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences is the ultimate peer recognition.

— Moshe Vardi

Manchester City has a really good academy, and they're winning titles at all ages.

— Pep Guardiola

I played right-side centre-back many times coming throughout the academy so the position wasn't new to me.

— Reece James

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'

— Maryrose Wood

“Bellingham Academy: everything you always wanted in a prep school and less.”

— Amber Dermont

I finished my career in Australia and started my Academy, showing kids technique. I just loved it.

— Harry Kewell

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

— Sally Kellerman

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Bill Murray

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

— Alyson Hannigan

Findlay Prep, Brewster Academy, Oak Hill - those are all basketball powerhouses. I went to an academic powerhouse.

— Josh Hart

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

— Hans Frank

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

— Bela Lugosi

I've always looked at the world of Umbrella Academy' with the world that I live in.

— Aidan Gallagher