The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty. . . no better than a beauty contest.
I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
For the Humanist,. . . head and heart. . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge. . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind. '
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.
I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.
The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.
I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.
The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.
To be recognized for your hard work is a true honor. An Academy Award nomination is one thing that, five years later, I can't form a sentence about. It has not made me feel like I can work any less hard. It makes me feel like I have to work 100 times as hard, to even be as remotely good, to work through an experience that could take me through that again.
What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.
The Academy is paranoid about its image.
There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.
My dad [. . . ] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award. '
in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.
When I did The Umbrella Academy, I studied Gabriel Bá's art. I said, "Oh, this is what he likes to do here. Maybe I can push him to do a little more of this. " You can play to those strengths. It's a different scenario with each artist.