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The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

I consider it probably one of the biggest honors to be in the Academy. There are only like 1300 actors in it, and as far as I know, you're a member for life. To this day, I'm wondering how lucky I was.

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people.

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.