Academy Quotes
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
Sacheen Littlefeather -
My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
Walter Gropius
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Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking
Ally Carter -
The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
Adam McKay -
I can't compare these movies (Vampire Academy/Twilight/Harry Potter). Every single one of them has their own mythology.
Danila Kozlovsky -
I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
Luke Grimes -
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
Plato
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I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies
William Peter Blatty -
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs.
Albert Einstein -
If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.
George Clooney -
I soon discovered that they were absorbed in a silly kind of amorous correspondence with the girls of a neighbouring academy, but " what were all such toys to me?
Edmund Gosse -
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
Bela Lugosi -
The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
Paul R. Ehrlich
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For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about a quality for instance that is somewhat controversial in academic circles and also outside of the academy. In other places, "Gender trouble" is old.
Judith Butler -
I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
Elia Kazan -
I think Straight Outta Compton is one of the greatest biopics, but I am biased on that one, obviously. There are some things the Academy gets wrong and it's important to call them on it. But in other instances, there are simply just better actors. They're doing a better job than they've done, but there's still room for improvement.
Bun B -
I'm very surprised at Carol didn't get a best picture. Todd Haynes is an Academy darling, his period pieces are nothing short of brilliant, and they hold up. And I definitely feel like Carol speaks to, even though it's set in the past, it speaks to themes we're dealing with in life right now. It's really really shocking that it didn't get it.
Bun B -
To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.
Bad Bunny -
In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.
Edward Jay Epstein
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The fact that the academy is seen as being so important to the cultural conversation is a big compliment.
Dawn Hudson -
You think a student leaves each week because they are out of the academy. This is just a cover up to hide serious injury that has occured! Malachi has only one ear and is now wearing one of those joke rubber ones - it's very noticeable but people are too polite to say!
David Sneddon -
Obviously movies like this Fast and the Furious 7 don't get any love from the Academy. If they do, it may be special effects or sound editing or something like that.
Bun B -
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