I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's… — Leigh-Allyn Baker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In my more than 60 years as a member of the American scientific community, including service as president of both the National… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
Even Arnold's adviser says he was shocked by his decision to run. I mean, his people were backstage that night and they… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do.… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm very surprised at Carol didn't get a best picture. Todd Haynes is an Academy darling, his period pieces are nothing short… — Bun B Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said,… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I spent time in the academy, exchanging ideas with young players, being on the field, the way they were looking at… — Patrick Vieira Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally,… — Samuel Warren Carey Copy Share Image
My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater,… — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image
Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter,… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I… — Matt Kuchar Copy Share Image
Youngsters need self-esteem, simple targets in life which give energy. In the academy they can be so easily distracted by so many… — Per Mertesacker Copy Share Image
To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the… — Don Simpson Copy Share Image
