Academy Quote by Tom Hanks Download Open image “I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.” — Tom Hanks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academy Academy award Academy awards Awards Cards Categories Games Know how Knows Toss Working it
Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations? — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show. — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
You can receive the individual awards, but ultimately, you want to win the big game. — Khalil Mack 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
You don't really work for awards, but when they come it's... nice. — Pierfrancesco Favino Copy Share Image
I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway,… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes.… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up.… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is. — Tom Hanks 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
