Academy Quote by Bob Hope Download Open image “Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.” — Bob Hope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academy Academy award Academy awards Awards House Known Welcome
I know the Academy Awards are all about the art, and love, of movie making. But I have to say, my favorite part is… — Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Copy Share Image
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I feel very honored and special really. You can't imagine, to arrive at the Oscars when you arrive so low, and you can't go… — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show. — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and… — Laura Dern Copy Share
I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get. — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Having so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
