High School Quotes

In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

I know that I wasn't bred to be an Olympian. I didn't start running until high school, and I just stumbled upon to.

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."

I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.

People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school that I haven't personally been affected by bullies. But it's actually quite the contrary.

I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing.

I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.

My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.

I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my friends got into sororities and fraternities and I didn't.

When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.

I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

I think a high school girl hitchhiking is stupid. It was dangerous then and it's dangerous now.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

That was a mistake, I guess, going out to California. They have these things called guidance counselors in high school. They drink a lot of herbal tea.

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!

I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama class in high school.

I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.

In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.