I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.
Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.
When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as she had done in my first year at art school.
Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Do you think I'm pretty? I think you're beautiful Beautiful? You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.
He didn't know that sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around.
But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now," said Kirova, "Her guardian." "You got cheap foreign labour to protect Lissa?
If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.
No podía ser la novia de Mason porque cuando me imaginaba a alguien sujetándome y murmurándome marranadas al oído, ese alguien tenía acento ruso.
Looking at either of them caused a pang in his chest. Looking at both of them started a dull, steady ache.
He had to escape. He had to go and become a hero, the way he had been once.
'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.
The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.
On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more call for that one than you'd think.
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I've seen this first-hand.
