In School Quotes

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust 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 was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school and every year I participated in the talent shows and the school plays, all of 'em.

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

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.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

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 mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

Public school system status quo is indefensible.

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

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.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

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.

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

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

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.

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.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

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.

I used to sing on the school bus everyday.

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 wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

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.

I worked my way through law school.