Academy Quotes · Page 6

Admission to the National Academy is highly competitive and selective.

— William Barr

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.

— Jim Carrey

I began serving my country when I was 18 years old and entered the U.S. Naval Academy.

— Mikie Sherrill

When I came into the Yorkshire academy I was christened Bluey almost immediately.

— Jonny Bairstow

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a…

— Jon Stewart

I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

— Tom Hanks

I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus.

— Steven Cojocaru

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

— Michael Caine

We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also…

— Vladimir Putin

I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a…

— Glenn Hoddle

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind…

— Seamus Heaney

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality;…

— Charles Glover Barkla

I don't know if I could [do a TV show]. I would if it had nothing to do with the comic. It…

— Gerard Way

When you leave school and go into an academy, you understand its about what you contribute to the team. What stuck with…

— Emile Heskey

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the…

— Adam Davidson

Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments…

— Louis Finkelstein

I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To…

— Eva Marcille

I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn…

— Anonymous

The ideal direction is using something like Khan Academy for every student to work at their own pace, to master concepts before…

— Sal Khan

Blackwater USA has already taken in more than $1 billion from the public coffers. All in all, that's not a bad take…

— Robert Bateman

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

You think a student leaves each week because they are out of the academy. This is just a cover up to hide…

— David Sneddon

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

— Kato Kaelin

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

— Mark Ruffalo

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

— Garry Wills

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

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

— Donald O'Connor

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

— Danila Kozlovsky

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

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

— Aidan Gallagher

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

— Jack Wilshere

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

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

— Henny Youngman

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

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

— Matt Stone