In School Quotes

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

I like old school horror movies like Exorcist. I always loved scaring myself and I don't know at all what that's about.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.

I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.

High school is a dark place; I hung out with ‘freaks.’

Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.

I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.

Before I realized I had faults, I was already joking about it, to get attention. By the time I went to high school, I had a pretty practiced routine down.

I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

Whether you're a veteran like me or a high school athlete, the most important thing you can do is keep your body healthy.

The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.

I had a hard time in middle school. I was never really quite me until I was 16 or 17, and things like bullying didn't matter anymore.

And in high school, people are always watching so there's always a reason to pose.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

I am a bit old-school.

With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

Usain Bolt won the gold for the men's 100- and 200-meter dashes for the second Olympics in a row. You know, he has been running since he was in elementary school - kind of like Mitt Romney.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.

Hell, when I was in high school, a "drive-by shooting" meant somebody had their rear end hanging out a car window!

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

In high school there were so many Jennifers, I had all sorts of names, including Jo-Jen, Jenna, Jenna-Bean, and Jenny A.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

When we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt.

High school was great when it ended.

All those girls who were mean to me[in high school], I pay them back by going through the drive-through window and asking for my burger. That feels really great.

To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.

I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

I went out with the same girl throughout all four years of high school.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going.

I grew up babysitting and watching TRL after school. But the fact that I'm part of the whole new scripted development program that they're trying to launch is really awesome.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.