Academy Quote by Brenda Blethyn Download Open image “The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.” — Brenda Blethyn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academy Academy award Academy awards Affair Awards England Wells
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
The Oscars have always been an arena in which very commercial films are recognised, and I don't mean that in a bitter way; I… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to win an Oscar, of course, but to be in this conversation, it's somehow an honour and a strange life… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman - it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for. — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning… — Anna Maxwell Martin Copy Share Image
The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work. — Sally Field Copy Share Image
I've never gone to the Oscars because I can't afford another week away. It is not more important than my husband. It is not… — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to… — Brenda Blethyn Copy Share Image
I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies. — Brenda Blethyn Copy Share Image
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in… — Brenda Blethyn Copy Share Image
The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood.… — Brenda Blethyn Copy Share Image
In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside. — Brenda Blethyn Copy Share Image
I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater. — Brenda Blethyn Copy Share Image
It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years. — Brenda Blethyn Copy Share Image
I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones. — Brenda Blethyn 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
