In School Quotes

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

I was a complete outsider in high school.

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought Id regret it if I didnt act.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.

Best advice was from a man by the name of James Dean. "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today". I read that my senior year in high school and have never stopped since.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

I started running in high school. I found out if you run fast then you can get girls.

I remember what it was like in the 1960's in rural Louisiana. Women did not have many options. My own best friend in high school had a baby at 16. I don't want us to go back to those days.

I dress like a 7-year-old space pilot. I have clothes that I still wear regularly from high school.

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

If you're in high school, just know there is a big world out there and you can be anyone you want to be.

Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.

I went to public school up until junior high.

I think that with some education there are real possibilities at the high school and college level, but more so at the college level, to bring people into cycling.

In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

I did it once in high school - I was Sandy in Grease - and I decided then that I would never do it again. I've felt that way for years, and that's no bullshit.

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

The first day of school is bullshit

None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school.

I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.